Staff Security Engineer - Detection Platform

Colossus Technologies Group is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to design and build a scalable detection engineering platform. This role focuses on building engineering systems for security detections across multi-cloud environments, ensuring effective detection coverage and operational metrics for security teams.

Responsibilities:

• Build and manage the detection engineering pipeline for creating, testing, deploying, and maintaining security detections at scale
• Develop services that normalize and translate detections across multiple rule formats and systems
• Deploy and operate infrastructure across multi-cloud environments using GitOps and CI/CD pipelines
• Integrate detection workflows with security platforms such as Google SecOps
• Build systems that pull and push data via APIs and ingest detection data and telemetry into centralized platforms
• Develop tooling to measure detection coverage, performance, and operational effectiveness
• Deliver an MVP platform usable by security teams outside the core engineering group, then standardize and scale it
• Design and maintain internal APIs and documentation using Swagger / OpenAPI

Requirements:

• Experience in security engineering, detection engineering, or security platform engineering
• Strong experience working with cloud infrastructure in multi-cloud environments
• Experience building GitOps or CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with SIEM platforms (Chronicle experience highly valued)
• Experience building API-driven services and documenting them using Swagger / OpenAPI
• Experience working with security telemetry and detection rules at scale