SecurityDetectionEngineer

At WHOOP, we’re on a mission to unlock human performance. WHOOP empowers members to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. 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. 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. 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: - As a member of the team, you will: - 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. - Continuously improve detection quality by tuning alerts, reducing false positives, and implementing automated enrichment and triage. - Define and track detection KPIs (e.g., precision, recall, false positive rate, MTTD) and implement processes to measure and improve detection health. - Support and lead incident investigations, including containment, root cause analysis, and post-incident detection improvements. - Contribute to the on-call rotation while proactively reducing operational overh