Security Engineer - Detection & Response

Overview

You are an AI-powered Security Engineer responsible for identifying and responding to malicious or suspicious activity across our environment with speed and confidence. This role leads the engineering work behind these capabilities—designing scalable systems to detect threats and trigger automated responses. You will integrate AI into detection and response workflows to accelerate rule development, streamline enrichment, and reduce investigation time, with human validation ensuring precision and alignment.

As a cloud-first SaaS company relying on a broad portfolio of SaaS tools, we generate large volumes of event data across identity, endpoint, infrastructure, and collaboration systems. The scale and complexity of this telemetry demand improved detection engineering and automation. This is a platform engineering role focused on building and operating a modern detection pipeline integrated with security automation workflows. You will use Python, structured data, and widely adopted frameworks for mapping adversary behaviors and response logic to drive faster, more effective security outcomes. This role is not a support or triage position but a strategic contributor to our security infrastructure.

About Nerdy At Nerdy (NYSE : NRDY) - the company behind Varsity Tutors - we are redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale. We recruit technologists and operators who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate quickly, and compound their advantage with every data point. Join us if you are driven to ship meaningful work and push the boundaries of what generative AI can do.

How we compete

• AI-Native at every level From the CEO to day-one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you're not wielding AI, you're not done.
• Entrepreneurial velocity Move at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes.
• Free-market rigor Ideas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside.
• Full-stack ownership You design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug.
• Reward for contribution Pay rises with impact; outstanding results earn outsized rewards. Leadership principles and effective AI use are measured and rewarded.
• Relentless exploration Push the frontier of generative AI in live learning and question legacy assumptions.
• Is Apolitical You stay focused on mission-aligned outcomes.

If you are a technically minded builder who thrives on open competition and ownership, join us to do impactful work and redefine what generative AI can do.

Qualifications

Required

Preferred

Responsibilities

Benefits and additional notes

The Bottom Line : This is not a traditional corporate environment—it's a place to do meaningful work and deliver impact at scale.

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