OpenAI
Security Engineer, Detection and Response - EMEA
Found: February 18, 2026
Location:
London, UK and Dublin, Ireland
About the Role:
As a Security Engineer on Detection & Response, you’ll help protect OpenAI’s most sensitive assets by building and operating systems to detect suspicious activity and respond effectively.
Responsibilities:
- Build and evolve Detection & Response capabilities across OpenAI’s infrastructure.
- Engineer detection pipelines and tooling.
- Automate response and investigations.
- Partner with other Security teams and system/infrastructure owners.
- Define D&R requirements and drive visibility across various platforms.
- Evaluate and respond to emergent security concerns.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have hands-on threat detection and/or incident response experience.
- Understand modern adversary tradecraft and can translate it into practical strategies.
- Have experience working in Kubernetes/containerized environments.
- Are comfortable reasoning about lower-level infrastructure and datacenter risks.
- Have experience across major cloud platforms.
- Enjoy building automation that replaces repetitive D&R work.