Lead Detection Engineer
Nebius — Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel · In-Person · Mid
Role description
Role Overview
As a Lead Detection Engineer at Nebius, you will set the direction for detection engineering, owning the standards, tooling, coverage strategy, and automation. You will work closely with SOC analysts and Platform Engineering to make detection a first-class engineering discipline. You will be responsible for detection coverage strategy, detection-as-code pipeline, architecture connecting detections to enrichment, triage, and automated response workflows, and technical standards for detection design, testing, documentation, deployment, and retirement.
What You Will Do
Your main responsibilities will include designing and building high-fidelity behavioral detections, researching emerging attacker techniques, validating detections through threat simulations, and defining and tracking detection engineering metrics.
Why It Might Be a Fit
To be successful in this role, you will need to have a strong understanding of attacker tradecraft and adversary behavior, hands-on experience with enterprise SIEM and EDR platforms, and strong query development skills in SPL, KQL, Sigma, or similar. You will also need to be able to make and defend technical decisions and establish standards others adopt.
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years in detection engineering, security operations, or a hybrid offensive/defensive role
- Experience owning or leading detection engineering work as a senior technical contributor
- Strong understanding of attacker tradecraft and adversary behavior
- Hands-on experience with at least one enterprise SIEM and EDR platform
- Strong query development skills in SPL, KQL, Sigma, or similar
- Solid engineering practices: Git, CI/CD, code review, Detection-as-Code workflows
- Experience using MITRE ATT&CK to design, validate, and measure detection coverage
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Career growth and learning opportunities
- Flexibility and ownership
- Collaborative and innovative culture
- Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
- International environment and talented teams