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Staff Security Engineer

Seattle, Washington United States💼 Full-time💰 $212,000–$212,000🗓 2026-07-14 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead detection and response strategy, architecture, and incident response for a global money transfer platform to protect customer funds and data from sophisticated adversaries.

Role type

Staff Security Engineer (Detection & Response)

Builds

Detection and response platforms, analytics, automation pipelines, and security standards across cloud and corporate environments.

Domain

Cybersecurity, Financial Services, Threat Detection & Response

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

Threat detection and response strategy, incident investigation and response, forensics, detection engineering, SIEM/SOAR/EDR expertise, detection-as-code, AI-enabled system design, Python/scripting, code review, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

Experience with IaaS/PaaS/SaaS environments, designing AI-assisted workflows, mentoring engineers, influencing without authority

Technologies

Python, SPL, KQL, EDR, SIEM, SOAR

Responsibilities

Define multi-year roadmaps for risk reduction, shape logging/alerting/investigation platform architecture, lead high-severity incident response, review product architectures for security risks, mentor engineers and establish security standards, participate in on-call rotation

Seniority

Staff, senior individual contributor and technical leader

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