CareerPlan

Senior Security Engineer - Detection and Response

San FranciscoFull-time$141k–$212k2026-11-05
Based in United StatesNo visa sponsorship

Core

Building and maintaining secure, reliable, and scalable detection and response systems to enhance security observability capabilities.

Role type

Senior Security Engineer (Detection and Response)

Builds

AI-first security systems, high-fidelity rule-based and ML-based detections as code, automated detection and response workflows

Domain

Cybersecurity, Security Operations, Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, Go, centralized logging, data lakes, SIEM solutions, large-scale data pipelines, CI/CD automations, git/GitHub, threat actor TTPs

Preferred skills

detection engineering, incident response on-call, ad-hoc threat hunts

Technologies

Python, Go, Covey

Responsibilities

Develop AI-first security systems to automate detection and response operations, Onboard and optimize security logging data for large-scale analysis, Develop high-fidelity rule-based and ML-based detections as code, Respond to security alerts and incidents, Drive end-to-end incident response investigations, Automate detection and response workflows, Conduct ad-hoc threat hunts

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC