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Senior Detection and Response Engineer

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-26 → 2026-09-25

Core

Own detection engineering and lead incident response for production and corporate environments, coordinating response and driving resolution.

Role type

Senior Detection and Response Engineer

Builds

Detection pipelines, response runbooks, and incident response capabilities

Domain

Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, Endpoint Security, Container Security

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

detection engineering, incident response, cloud security (AWS, Azure), endpoint security (EDR), container security, runtime telemetry, correlation, alerting, threat hunting, purple-team experience

Preferred skills

detection-as-code, SIEM platforms, Upwind, AI/ML platforms, distributed systems

Technologies

AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, EDR, Upwind

Responsibilities

Build detection coverage across cloud, endpoint, and runtime telemetry; own centralized correlation and alerting; lead incident response and coordinate escalation; tune detections to optimize signal-to-noise; run incident retrospectives; partner with infrastructure security and IT to close gaps

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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