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Senior Detection and Response Engineer

Los Angeles, CA💼 Full-time💰 $170,000–$170,000🗓 2026-09-09 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build detections and response capabilities to find and stop threats across cloud, endpoints, and identity providers for a wealth management AI platform.

Role type

Senior Detection and Response Engineer (Security)

Builds

High-fidelity detections as code, response playbooks, and automation for cloud, endpoint, and identity telemetry.

Domain

Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, Threat Detection

Deliverable

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

Required skills

Detection engineering, Incident response, Threat hunting, SIEM authoring, Cloud security (AWS), Endpoint security, Identity security, Scripting/Automation (Python), MITRE ATT&CK framework

Preferred skills

Regulated environment experience (fintech), Cyber threat intelligence, Insider-threat detection

Technologies

AWS, Kubernetes, Datadog, Splunk, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike, Terraform, SOAR, WAF

Responsibilities

Build, tune, and maintain high-fidelity detections as code; Triage and investigate alerts, lead response on security incidents, and proactively threat-hunt; Operationalize threat intelligence and IOC ingestion; Develop response playbooks and automation (SOAR); Partner with MDR/IR partners and run purple-team exercises; Continuously improve logging coverage and detection efficacy.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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