Security Engineer (Detection Engineering)

A detection engineer on SpaceX's security operations Blue Team in Redmond, working on-site to build the tooling and data pipelines used to spot and stop well-resourced adversaries targeting the company's launch and spacecraft environment.

The engineer builds and refines the detections and automation that drive what the SOC catches, finds and prioritises gaps with owners of high-risk systems, looks into suspicious activity uncovered while developing detections, takes part in adversary emulation, and helps the SOC fix visibility gaps after incidents. SpaceX wants a STEM degree or two years in incident response, security operations or security engineering, and coding experience in a language such as Python, Go, C++ or Rust. Preferred are CSIRT experience, ETL work that shapes logs for detection, running services on Kubernetes, SIEM familiarity and knowledge of red team techniques.