Which roles ask for Detection Engineering at tech companies · 24 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
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24 roles counted that list Detection Engineering, one per company, title and level; 64 postings in the window.
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In short
Detection Engineering: listed in 24 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 10 and preferred in 14. The largest group is security engineer roles: 16 of 24.
- Required
- 10 of 24
- Of the roles that list Detection Engineering
- Preferred
- 14 of 24
- Of the roles that list Detection Engineering
- Largest group
- 16 of 24
- Security engineer
Roles that ask for Detection Engineering
Roles listing Detection Engineering, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Security engineer | 16 | 16 of 126 |
| Software engineer | 4 | 4 of 719 |
| Machine learning engineer | 2 | 2 of 79 |
| AI engineer | 1 | 1 of 70 |
| Data scientist | 1 | 1 of 112 |
Companies that ask for it most
Asked alongside
Out of the 24 Detection Engineering roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 17 of 24 |
| AWS | 14 of 24 |
| Cybersecurity | 10 of 24 |
| Go | 10 of 24 |
| Incident Response | 9 of 24 |
| Azure | 8 of 24 |
| GCP | 8 of 24 |
| CI/CD | 7 of 24 |
| Cloud Security | 6 of 24 |
| Identity and Access Management | 6 of 24 |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Terraform | 5 of 24 |
| Incident Response | 4 of 24 |
| Infrastructure as Code | 4 of 24 |
| LLMs | 4 of 24 |
| SIEM | 4 of 24 |
| AI | 3 of 24 |
| AI Agents | 3 of 24 |
| AWS | 3 of 24 |
| CI/CD | 3 of 24 |
| GCP | 3 of 24 |
Experience
Of the 15 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 15 of 15
- 2+ years
- 15 of 15
- 3+ years
- 15 of 15
- 5+ years
- 10 of 15
- 8+ years
- 2 of 15
- 10+ years
- 1 of 15
Degree
Of the 23 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 0 of 23
- Required, or experience instead
- 2 of 23
- Preferred
- 0 of 23
- Not mentioned
- 21 of 23
Pay and remote work
Of the 24 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 9 of 24
- Remote roles
- 11 of 24
How we count: 24 roles from 18 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology