Job Overview
Location
US-Florida-Remote
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Cybersecurity
Date Posted
April 22, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As a Senior Detection Engineer at Cloudera, you will fortify the company's security posture by developing, tuning, and refining alerting and detection capabilities to stay ahead of evolving threats, directly supporting Cloudera's mission to empower enterprises with secure data insights.
- • Day to day, you will develop and refine detections, align with Incident Response teams, collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Sales, SRE, and Product Security, build actionable runbooks, optimize data ingestion into SIEM platforms, proactively address emerging threats using threat intelligence, and map detection coverage against frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK.
- • You will join Cloudera’s Incident Response Team within a cybersecurity-focused organization that manages vast data ecosystems for global enterprises, leveraging open-source innovation to drive digital transformation and secure operations at scale.
- • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in detection engineering, threat hunting, SIEM optimization, and cross-functional security collaboration, while advancing your skills in AI/ML-enhanced analytics, automation orchestration, and cloud environment telemetry across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes.
🎯 Requirements
- • Relevant educational degree or equivalent cybersecurity work experience with 3-5 years of background, including three or more years in Detection Engineering, Security Analytics, Threat Hunting, or Incident Response.
- • Deep proficiency with SIEM platforms, including hands-on experience in data ingestion, custom parsing, and advanced query development.
- • Strong understanding of cyber threats, attack techniques, and incident response methodologies, combined with scripting/programming skills in Python, Go, or Bash for automation and data parsing.
- • Experience leveraging Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or UEBA to build anomaly-based detections beyond static rules.
- • Proficiency in understanding telemetry and security logging across cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), endpoints (macOS, Windows, Linux), and network appliances.
- • Excellent cross-functional communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively with non-security teams.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Generous PTO Policy
- • Flexible WFH Policy
- • Mental & Physical Wellness programs
- • Phone and Internet Reimbursement program
- • Access to Continued Career Development
- • Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages
- • Paid Volunteer Time
- • Employee Resource Groups
Skills & Technologies
About Cloudera, Inc.
Cloudera, Inc. provides an enterprise data cloud platform for analytics and machine learning. Its software combines data engineering, data warehousing, and AI workloads on hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Built around open-source technologies like Apache Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka, it offers unified security, governance, and metadata management. Customers use Cloudera Data Platform to ingest, store, analyze, and model large-scale data for business intelligence and real-time insights. The company serves financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, and public sector organizations worldwide.
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