CareerPlan

Senior Security Engineer - Detection & Response

San FranciscoFull-time$141k–$212k2026-11-08
Based in United StatesNo visa sponsorship

Core

Build detections, triage alerts, lead investigations, respond to incidents, perform threat hunting, and build automation tooling for Klaviyo's enterprise, cloud, and product environments.

Role type

Senior Security Engineer (Detection & Response)

Builds

Detections-as-code, security tooling, and automated response workflows

Domain

Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, Incident Response

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Detections-as-code, SIEM, Security data lakes, Digital forensics, SQL, Python/Go, Git/GitHub, CI/CD, Threat hunting, Incident response

Preferred skills

AI-first security systems, Large-scale data pipelines

Technologies

SIEM, Security data lake, Python, Go, SQL, Splunk, Git, GitHub

Responsibilities

Develop and deploy rule-based and anomaly-based detections, Respond to cyber threats and drive incident investigations, Perform digital forensic investigations, Automate detection and response workflows, Conduct threat hunts across environments, Mentor security engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC