# Staff Security Detection Engineer
**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $143K-$273K
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Python, Pyspark, Spark, Machine Learning, SQL, AWS, Azure, GCP, Git, Terraform
**Posted:** 2026-01-30
> Designs and implements scalable ML-driven intrusion detection solutions, optimizes log pipelines, and enhances threat detection on Databricks platform. Requires 10+ years experience in security detection engineering and expertise in cloud security, Python, and Spark.
## Job Description
## Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement advanced detection strategies by analyzing new log sources, schemas, and raw data.
- Collaborate with product and data engineering teams to build efficient log ingestion pipelines and support large-scale data analytics.
- Engineer and deploy detection solutions on Databricks using Spark, Python, and other technologies with clean code, testing, and documentation.
- Develop rule-based and ML-based intrusion detection models integrated with Databricks platform for high accuracy and low false positives.
- Partner with Incident Response teams for threat hunting, providing logging, alerts, and playbooks.
- Influence long-term technology strategies and roadmaps for detection engineering.
- Represent Databricks at security and engineering conferences.

## What We Look For
- 10+ years of relevant experience or advanced degree + 7 years in security detection engineering.
- 6+ years of software engineering, with 4+ years in security-related engineering, especially detection.
- Expertise in securing/operating at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Strong proficiency in network security, cloud security, application/log analysis, endpoint security.
- Proven experience in Python, Git/GitHub, CI/CD (Terraform a plus).
- Familiarity with PySpark, SQL, data analysis tools, machine learning.
- Passion for learning attack techniques and defense strategies.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills.
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