139K–190K USD / year
Senior Security Detection Engineer
OtherRemote — United States
Published on 2026-10-07
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About this role
As a Senior Security Detection Engineer at GitLab, you'll be responsible for building and maintaining a robust detection engineering program. You will focus on identifying behavioral anomalies and writing threat detections, using automation and AI capabilities to enhance efficiency.
About the company
GitLab is a DevSecOps platform that brings source control, CI/CD, security, and project management into a single application. It helps engineering teams plan, build, secure, and ship software faster.
The team
Detection Engineering
Stack
Agentic AISIEMElasticSplunkAWSGCPKubernetesTerraform
What you'll do
- Identify detection gaps using MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Write and maintain behavioral threat detections
- Act as a detection architect ensuring quality and consistency
- Collaborate to improve security observability capabilities
- Use and build automations for the signals engineering program
What we're looking for
- Experience in SOC, incident response or detection engineering
- Expertise in SIEM/security data lakes
- Proficiency in detecting malicious patterns
- Strong Cloud and PaaS experience
- Experience with mature detection capabilities
Nice to have
- Familiarity with GitLab application
- Experience writing SaaS application detections
- Experience building detection pipelines
Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Equity Compensation
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave