Cybersecurity SaaS | Detection Engineering | Cloud Security | Security Analytics
Our client, an innovative Cybersecurity SaaS company based in Barcelona, is looking for a Detection Engineer to develop advanced detection logic, security analytics, and automated detection-as-code capabilities for cloud-native customer environments.
You’ll work alongside Threat Researchers, Security Engineers, and Cloud Platform teams to build scalable detection content that identifies sophisticated threats, reduces false positives, and helps customers respond to attacks faster than ever before.
If you’re passionate about cloud security, threat detection, automation, and engineering-driven security operations, this is an opportunity to make a real impact.
Technical Environment
- Threat Detection Engineering

What You’ll Be Working On
- Developing high-quality detection rules for cloud-native enterprise environments
- Building Detection-as-Code workflows that enable scalable, version-controlled security content




- Creating security analytics that identify advanced threats across AWS infrastructure and cloud workloads
- Writing Python tooling to automate detection development, validation, and testing
- Improving SIEM content to reduce false positives while increasing detection accuracy
- Developing behavioural detections based on attacker techniques and real-world threat intelligence
- Collaborating with Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, and Product teams to continuously improve detection coverage
- Building automated testing pipelines to validate detection content before deployment
- Supporting incident investigations by developing new detections based on emerging attack techniques
- Helping shape the company’s cloud detection strategy across a rapidly growing cybersecurity platform

Experience Required
- 4+ years of experience in Detection Engineering, Security Engineering, Threat Detection, or Security Operations
- Strong commercial experience working with enterprise SIEM platf

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