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Colossus Technologies Group

Staff Security Engineer - Detection Platform

Remote

United states

$ 220,000 /year

Full Time

11-03-2026

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Skills

Leadership CI/CD CI/CD Pipelines

Job Specifications

We are seeking a Staff Security Engineer to design and build a scalable detection engineering platform that supports the creation, deployment, and measurement of thousands of security detections across multi-cloud environments and security platforms.

This role focuses on building the engineering systems that connect detection content, telemetry pipelines, and platforms such as Google SecOps, while providing visibility into detection coverage, effectiveness, and operational metrics for security teams and leadership.

The position is highly engineering-focused and centers on platform development, automation, and scaling detection lifecycle management.

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.

Required Experience

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

About the Company

At Colossus Technologies Group, we provide top-tier cybersecurity and digital trust staffing, IT consulting, and project management solutions, including privacy, security, and GRC SaaS platform solution implementation. Our expertise ensures businesses have access to the right talent and strategies to safeguard their digital assets, optimize operations, minimize and govern digital risks and drive growth. Know more