CoreWeave
AI Cloud
SeniorSecurityEngineerI,AdvancedResponse
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“Senior Security Engineer I, Advanced Response at CoreWeave. Skills: Incident response leadership, Threat hunting, Adversary hunting, Building security capabilities, Deep technical investigations, AI-powered tooling development. Lead critical incidents. Hunt adversaries”
What You'll Achieve.
Fight back against threat actors; Stay left of boom; Improve response posture; Accelerate work left and right of boom; Stress-test real-world response capabilities
Industry & Context.
Authoritatively forming hypotheses about what's burning and a strategy to attack it before you can see the fire directly; Deep technical investigations; Root cause analysis
On-call hours (including weekends and holidays) and leadership during active incidents is expected, Access to export controlled information, Must be a U. S. person (U. S. citizen or national, U. S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee) or eligible to access export controlled information without authorization or obtain required authorization
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Extensive experience in incident response, security operations roles, and/or threat hunting at scale, with demonstrated ownership of complex, high-impact incidents from start to finish, technical investigation and hunting skills — comfortable working hands-on with logs, telemetry, and raw system data to form and validate hypotheses, not just direct others to do it, Deep familiarity with attacker TTPs and how they manifest across cloud, endpoint, identity, and network environments, Experience briefing senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders during active incidents with clarity and composure, Comfort leading and operating across organizational boundaries — pulling the right people in at the right time without losing ownership of the outcome, Proficiency in at least one query language (e. g. , SQL, Splunk Query Language, HiveQL), Ability to script or automate in Python, Go, or similar to close operational gaps and accelerate response and hunting workflows
Nice to Have
Experience building or materially maturing an IR program at a cloud-native organization, Familiarity with Kubernetes or containerized environments, with appetite to go deeper, Experience building and leveraging AI-assisted tooling in investigation or triage workflows, Familiarity with SOAR platforms and case management tooling in an operational IR context
What You'll Do.
Lead critical incidents
Build capabilities for defense at scale
high-severity cybersecurity incidents end-to-end
Conduct deep technical investigations and hunts across endpoint
and network data sources
Produce risk-driven post-incident reviews
Run a structured threat hunting program
Architect and build AI-powered tooling
Develop and run incident simulations and tabletop exercises
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work alongside security partners; Comfort leading and operating across organizational boundaries — pulling the right people in at the right time; Collaboration
Communication Scope
Clear, credible voice to senior leadership during active incidents; Translating fast-moving technical situations into risk and decision frameworks
Process & Methodology
Ownership of outcomes, Strategy development
Full Job Description
CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com. What You’ll Do CoreWeave powers the world's most demanding AI infrastructure — and threat actors know it. The Advanced Response Team exists to fight back. You'll lead our most critical incidents, hunt adversaries before they surface, and build the capabilities that define how CoreWeave defends itself at scale. Counter threat actors at a scale most practitioners never encounter — and build the capabilities to stay left of boom Work alongside security partners who hold a high bar and expect you to raise it Shape how CoreWeave finds and responds to the threats that matter most, with the autonomy to build and execute at the highest level About the role: Leading the most complex, highest severity cybersecurity incidents at CoreWeave end-to-end – with full ownership of outcomes, not just coordination Reading smoke — authoritatively forming hypotheses about what's burning and a strategy to attack it before you can see the fire directly Serving as a clear, credible voice to senior leadership during active incidents — translating fast-moving technical situations into risk and decision frameworks that drive action Conducting deep technical investigations and hunts across endpoint, cloud, identity, and network data sources to establish scope, timeline, and root cause Producing rigorous, risk-driven post-incident reviews that go beyond surface-level timelines and result in concrete, durable improvements Running a structured threat hunting program informed b
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