Whoop
Security Detection Engineer
Boston, MA · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$130k-$170kDetected 12 days ago
PythonGoPowerShellMachine LearningData AnalysisCybersecurityDetection EngineeringIncident Response
About the role
- WHOOP is seeking a Security Detection Engineer to serve as a key technical contributor within our Information Security team, reporting to the Information Security Manager.
- You will help define our detection engineering strategy across cloud, identity, endpoint, and application environments, ensuring depth of coverage, signal precision, and resilience against modern attacker tradecraft.
- This is an opportunity to shape a growing detection program within a rapidly evolving Information Security team.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale high-signal detections across cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and application layers using Detection-as-Code principles.
- Develop and maintain detection logic aligned to real-world attacker behavior and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK across modern security platforms.
- Translate threat intelligence into actionable detections and validate effectiveness through adversary emulation and testing.
- Build behavioral detections to protect against threats such as account takeover, credential abuse, API misuse, automation attacks, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration.
- Support and lead incident investigations, including containment, root cause analysis, and post-incident detection improvements.
- WHOOP empowers members to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives.
Requirements
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in Information Security, with a focus on detection engineering, threat detection, or security operations.
- Familiarity with detection frameworks and tooling such as YARA, SIGMA, Suricata, or similar rule-based detection methodologies.
- Strong understanding of attacker techniques across identity compromise, cloud abuse, lateral movement, and data exfiltration.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Experience supporting incident response investigations and participating in on-call rotations.
- While most offers will typically fall toward the starting point of the range, total compensation will depend on the candidate's specific qualifications, expertise, and alignment with the role's requirements.
- Demonstrated experience writing and tuning detections across cloud, identity, endpoint, or application environments.
- Expertise analyzing and building detections on cloud and SaaS telemetry, including authentication events, API activity, and system logs.
- Strong scripting skills in a scripting language such as Python, Go, or PowerShell for automation and tool development.
- Strong analytical mindset with a systems-thinking approach to reducing noise and increasing signal fidelity.
- Experience building detective controls for consumer-facing platforms or detecting authentication and API abuse at scale is a strong plus.
- Effective communicator who can collaborate with engineers and explain detection strategy clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Familiarity with applying data analysis or machine learning techniques to security detection or alert triage is a plus.
- Interested in the role, but don't meet every qualification? We encourage you to still apply! At WHOOP, we believe there is much more to a candidate than what is written on paper, and we value character as much as experience. As we continue to build a diverse and inclusive environment, we encourage anyone who is interested in this role to apply.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field, and/or relevant security certifications are a plus.
Compensation
- The WHOOP compensation philosophy is designed to attract, motivate, and retain exceptional talent by offering competitive base salaries, meaningful equity, and consistent pay practices that reflect our mission and core values.
Benefits
- In this role, you will drive the design and evolution of high-fidelity, scalable detection capabilities that protect millions of members' biometric and health data.
- Define and track detection KPIs (e.g., precision, recall, false positive rate, MTTD) and implement processes to measure and improve detection health.
- Partner with Engineering, IT, Infrastructure, Product, and GRC to ensure systems launch with strong monitoring and detection coverage.
- Map detections to threat models, identify visibility gaps, and continuously improve coverage as the environment scales.
- Explore and apply advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to improve detection fidelity, reduce noise, and enhance triage and investigation workflows.
Company info
- Continuously improve detection quality by tuning alerts, reducing false positives, and implementing automated enrichment and triage.
- Contribute to the on-call rotation while proactively reducing operational overhead through automation.
- Stay ahead of evolving threats by researching emerging attack techniques and incorporating learnings into detection strategy.
- At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance.
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