Threat Detection & Response Engineer Intern

CarGurus Early Careers • Boston, MA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

CarGurus is looking for a Threat Detection and Response Intern to work with our Threat Detection and Response (TD&R) Team. This is a hands-on technical role that will build our first line of defense against cybersecurity threats in a complex and evolving landscape. You will be responsible for our detection and response lifecycle, identifying and preventing threats from impacting our employees, customers and other stakeholders. As a Threat Detection and Response Intern, you will have the opportunity to build a platform to identify and stop threats, work with data to solve complex security challenges, and serve as the first line of defense for the CarGurus ecosystem.
As a Threat Detection and Response Intern, you will join an 11-week Summer Internship Program designed to give you hands-on experience, expand your professional network, and build core industry skills. This full-time opportunity (40 hours per week) runs from June through August 2027. CarGurus operates on a hybrid working model, and candidates should expect to work out of our Boston, MA office 60% of the time (approximately three days per week).

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science or a related field, with eligibility to complete a full-time internship.
• Strong desire to apply the latest technology including AI and ML to defend against threats
• Desire to learn more about data pipelines and data engineering, especially centralized logging, SIEM tools, and data lakes
• Desire to measure the success of your work with quantitative tools like Precision and Recall
• Experience in at least one programming language like Python, Go or similar
• Desire to learn more about cloud infrastructure and technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, containers, IaC, etc
• Familiarity with tactics, techniques, and procedures used by threat actors
• Strong passion for continuous learning, especially relating to cybersecurity and technology
• Team player with strong oral and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Build tools and techniques to detect threats to the company using an engineering-first approach that prioritizes reliability, maintainability and scalability
• Leverage AI and automation to streamline detection and response operations in a safe and reliable manner
• Onboard, normalize and optimize security logging data to support detection engineering, applied ML models, and efficient querying during incidents.
• Develop high-fidelity, rule-based and ML-driven detections as code, utilizing automated testing and CI/CD pipelines for deployment.
• Monitor the threat landscape to identify and track emerging threats, ensuring that appropriate detective and preventative controls are deployed
• Partner with development teams to design controls for a cloud first infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, etc)

Benefits

• equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow with us
• career development and corporate giving programs
• employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities
• flexible hybrid model
• robust time off policies
• daily free lunch
• new car discount
• meditation and fitness apps
• commuting cost coverage

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern