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Security Engineer - Detection and Response

Develop effective detections from threat intelligence and analyst feedback

As a Security Engineer in Detection and Response at Spotify, you will identify, investigate, and respond to threats across the environment. You will turn threat intelligence, incident learnings, and analyst feedback into effective detections and investigation workflows. You will partner with the detection infrastructure squad and cross-functional teams to ensure proper signals and capabilities for threat detection at scale.

Why This Role?

Partner closely with detection infrastructure and cross-functional teams to strengthen threat detection

Key Responsibilities

  • Identify and investigate security threats across Spotify's environment
  • Develop detection rules and investigation workflows from threat intelligence
  • Conduct threat hunting and triage security alerts
  • Collaborate with detection infrastructure teams on telemetry and platforms
  • Integrate analyst feedback and incident learnings into detection improvements

Requirements

  • Experience in detection engineering, threat hunting, or security investigations
  • Ability to translate threat intelligence into effective detections
  • Experience working with security telemetry and investigation platforms
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills for cross-team partnership
  • Adaptability to evolving threat landscapes and business risk priorities

Required Skills

securitythreat-detectionincident-responsecommunicationteamworkdetection engineeringthreat huntingsecurity investigationsincident responsethreat intelligencecollaboration
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Original description from Lever Postings

The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.   Security engineers at Spotify protect our platform, employees, creators, and more than 700 million users. We are looking for an experienced Security Engineer to join the Detection and Response organization and help identify, investigate, and respond to threats across Spotify's environment.   You will work within our detection engineering squad where the team owns alert triage, security investigations, threat hunting, and the detection engineering lifecycle. You will turn threat intelligence, incident learnings, and analyst feedback into effective detections and investigation workflows. You will partner closely with the detection infrastructure squad, which builds and operates Detection and Response platforms and telemetry pipelines, and with teams across Spotify to make sure your squad has the signals and capabilities needed to detect and respond to threats at Spotify's scale.   We are a distributed team that values curiosity, sound judgment, clear communication, and continuous learning. We teach and learn from one another, adapt as the threat landscape changes, and focus our effort according to business needs and risk.

Salary Context

Similar Engineering roles on LokerDollar pay around $170k/yr (range $1k–1000k/yr, n=824 active listings).

Hiring at Spotify

Spotify has 23 other active roles on LokerDollar and has been hiring here since May 7, 2026 — across Engineering, AI.

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Market context

  • ESTIMATEEstimated pay is 1% above the role median of $170,000/year (n=824 pay-disclosing listings).
  • VERIFIEDSpotify: 56 postings in the last 3 months, 156 all-time on LokerDollar.
  • VERIFIEDCompany first seen May 7, 2026.
  • VERIFIEDThis listing first seen Sep 25, 2026.
  • VERIFIEDLast verified live Sep 30, 2026.

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Company
Spotify
Estimated salary
$165k–180k/yr
Based on similar roles — not stated by the employer
Job Type
full time
Location
Stockholm, Sweden · Remote
Category
Seniority
senior
PostedFreshNew & verified
Sep 24, 2026

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