# Security Detection Engineer at Whoop

- Company: Whoop
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Boston, MA
- Level: Mid-level
- Discipline: Security
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-10-22
- Skills: None mentioned
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/whoop/3363c311-cf72-4986-9c7f-11913e693b47

## Description

At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock and inspire performance for life. WHOOP empowers members to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives.



WHOOP is seeking a Security Detection Engineer to join our growing Information Security team, reporting directly to the Information Security Manager. In this hands-on technical role, you'll be responsible for designing, building, and continuously improving scalable, high-fidelity detection capabilities that safeguard the sensitive biometric and health data of millions of WHOOP members.



You'll play a critical role in strengthening our detection capabilities across cloud, identity, endpoint, and application environments, with a focus on identifying emerging threats, improving detection accuracy, and reducing security risk. This is an opportunity to take meaningful ownership of our detection engineering program, influence its technical direction, and help shape the future of security at WHOOP as we continue to scale.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

 - Design, build, and scale high-signal detections across cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and application layers using Detection-as-Code principles.

 - Develop and maintain detection logic aligned to real-world attacker behavior and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK across modern security platforms.

 - Translate threat intelligence into actionable detections and validate effectiveness through adversary emulation and testing.

 - Build behavioral detections to protect against threats such as account takeover, credential abuse, API misuse, automatio

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