Senior Detection and Response Engineer

Anduril Industries

Senior Detection and Response Engineer at Anduril Industries focusing on advanced defense technology security architecture. Collaborating with teams to build detection and response capabilities.

Posted 6/8/2026full-timeBoston • California, District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $166,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoPythonRustSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collaborate with Counter Intelligence and Insider Threat teams to develop key signals and capabilities to identify nefarious activity
Support internal tooling that surfaces detections to partner teams in real time, including API integrations, audit-trail instrumentation, and data-source health
Collaborate with Counter Intelligence, SecOps, Insider Threat and other key stakeholders to architect and implement detection and response frameworks for Anduril’s products, assets, and other custom applications
Build and optimize tailored detection signatures and response automation using detection-as-code principles
Lead threat modeling scenarios with cross-functional partners to understand weaknesses across OT, Cloud, Network, Endpoints, and other key worlds incorporating findings into security controls and/or detection signatures
Lead large-scale baselines of data, collaborating across many teams to emit signals to incorporate into detections, new telemetry ingestion, and/or security controls
Contribute directly to the development and advancement of our detection-as-code, data engineering, automation, and infrastructure capabilities
Design and tune User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) capabilities — including baselining, anomaly detection, and risk scoring — to surface insider threat and counterintelligence signals across identity, endpoint, and data-access telemetry
Work cross-collaboratively with different teams to mature the detection and response of threat actors in key worlds, developing data baselines, automation, and engineering capabilities to scale this capability across the business

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience programming in one or more general purpose languages (Python, Go, Rust, SQL, etc.)
Experience conducting data analysis in large-scale data lake environments
Experience deploying infrastructure as code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation, etc)
Experience working in a traditional software development lifecycle (i.e. Github, CI/CD, unit testing)
Extensive experience utilizing AWS / Azure security controls and services
Broad range of practical security knowledge across the spectrum of endpoint, network, identity, application, and cloud infrastructure
Deep understanding of adversarial tradecraft with an emphasis on counterintelligence and insider threat tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders
Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonGoRustSQLTerraformCDKCloudFormationdata analysisdetection-as-codeUser and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

Soft Skills

strong communication skillscollaborationleadershipcross-functional teamworkproblem-solving

Certifications

U.S. Top Secret security clearance