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Detection Engineering Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 53+ detection engineering jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 15 new this week. Hiring companies include SecurityScorecard, Elastic, and Braze.

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4-day weeks 2
unlimited PTO 20
best places to work 17
flex Fridays 3
generous parental leave 2

Updated August 23, 2026

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Security Engineer

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Five9 · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$66k – $175kPro · early access

Senior Research Engineer, Threat Intelligence

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SecurityScorecard · Remote · USA

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Senior Security Engineer

SmarterDx · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$190k – $220k

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Managed SIEM Detection Engineer

Expel · Remote · USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$112k – $162k

Principal Security Engineer | Cyber Defense Engineering

ServiceNow · Remote · Santa Clara, CA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$221k – $387k

Senior Security Engineer | AppSec

Wellhub · Remote · Brazil

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

PS, Solution Architect (Armis/Veza)

ServiceNow · Remote · Madrid, Spain

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Security Engineer, Incident Response

16d

Airbnb · Remote · USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours$196k – $227k

Principal Threat Hunting and Emulation Engineer

18d

Elastic · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

AI Security - Principal Security Research Engineer I

24d

Elastic · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

VP, Threat Research - Security Intelligence

25d

Elastic · Remote · Canada

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$301k – $476k

Senior Security Analyst I

1mo

DigitalOcean · Remote · Denver, CO, USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$110k – $137k

Detection & CorpSec Engineer

2mo

Quora · Remote · USA or Canada

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$172k – $250k

Senior Manager, Detection & Response (Security Engineering)

25d

Confluent · Remote · USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$242k – $319k

Manager, Security Operations Center

23d

Huntress · Remote · Australia

60 · GoodBest Place to Work

Security Engineer, Detection & Response

3mo

Liftoff · Remote · USA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO$172k – $240k

Senior Research Engineer, Threat Intelligence

1mo

SecurityScorecard · Remote · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Senior Research Engineer, Threat Intelligence

1mo

SecurityScorecard · Remote · Boston, MA, USA

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO

VP, Threat Research - Security Intelligence

25d

Elastic · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$312k – $494k

Senior Research Engineer, Threat Intelligence

1mo

SecurityScorecard · Remote · Raleigh, NC, USA

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO

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Employers hiring for Detection Engineering on this page include SecurityScorecard, Elastic, and Braze. Detection Engineering roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Detection Engineering is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Detection Engineering roles span the full seniority range — we list 47 open roles requiring Detection Engineering across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Detection Engineering hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Detection Engineering roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Detection Engineering candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Detection Engineering on current listings.

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Detection Engineering Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 53+ detection engineering jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 15 new this week. Hiring companies include SecurityScorecard, Elastic, and Braze.

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