Security Detection Engineer
Staff Security Detection Engineer at Databricks: design and implement scalable intrusion detection solutions using machine learning techniques and develop detections on the Databricks platform.
As part of the Security Detection team at Databricks, you will play a critical role in safeguarding our products, cloud infrastructure, endpoints, and employees from modern cyber threats. Our team combines deep expertise in machine learning, log analysis, cybersecurity, and software development to create a robust and scalable detection platform. Embracing the "Detection-as-Code" model, we build detections on our own Databricks platform, ensuring that our security measures are deeply integrated with our technology stack. In this role, you will work with cutting-edge machine learning techniques to design and implement scalable intrusion detection solutions at the enterprise level. You'll partner with our product and data engineering teams to optimize log ingestion pipelines, fuse diverse log sources, and develop anomaly-based and ML-driven detection strategies. You will be instrumental in enhancing the organization's threat detection capabilities by utilizing novel data sources, exploring new attack vectors, and refining our detection models.
You will be an individual contributor on the Security Detection team at Databricks, reporting to the Sr Manager of Detection Engineering.
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Posted June 7, 2026