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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in building and leading Detection and Response teams, with a strong focus on incident response, threat hunting, and security engineering. Capable of translating business risks into strategic actions while fostering collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.
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Detection And Response LeadershipIncident Response ExperienceCloud Infrastructure ExpertiseDetection EngineeringThreat Hunting
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Hard Skills
Incident ResponseDetection EngineeringDigital ForensicsResponse AutomationThreat IntelligenceCloud InfrastructureNetworkingOperating SystemsAI/ML EnvironmentsSecurity Engineering
Soft Skills
Team DevelopmentStrategic InfluenceCross-Functional CollaborationJudgment Under PressureCommunication
Tools & Technologies
Forensic ToolingDetection PipelinesInvestigation ToolsTelemetryResponse Automation
Industry Keywords
Security IncidentsEscalation PathsSaaS SecurityPrivileged-Access GovernanceRegulatory Compliance
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloud
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Build and lead the Detection and Response organization
- Hire and develop detection engineers, incident responders, and technical leaders
- Own the roadmap, staffing plan, and investment decisions
- Lead response to major security incidents, including investigation, containment, recovery, and executive communication
- Build severity criteria, escalation paths, playbooks, and sustainable 24/7 coverage for critical threats
- Develop incident commanders and cross-functional responders through exercises
- Set technical direction for telemetry, detection pipelines, forensic tooling, and response automation across cloud, endpoint, identity, SaaS, and application environments
- Apply software engineering practices to test detections, improve signal quality, and reduce manual work
- Evaluate AI-assisted investigation with measurable quality and appropriate human oversight
- Use threat intelligence, hunting, and attacker perspectives to prioritize meaningful threats
- Partner with offensive security and platform owners to validate coverage and close blind spots
- Collaborate with Engineering, IT, Legal, Privacy, Communications, and Customer Trust on sensitive investigations and crisis decisions
- Establish escalation and decision authority, preserve evidence, and support Legal-led notification and disclosure decisions
- Drive blameless reviews and ensure corrective actions have owners, deadlines, and verified outcomes
- Measure detection coverage, time to detect and contain, recurring failure modes, and responder workload to guide investments and reduce customer impact
Requirements
What you’ll need- Experience building and leading Detection and Response, incident response, or security engineering teams in a technology company with complex production systems
- Record of hiring strong engineers, developing technical leaders, and scaling teams and operating models
- Deep incident response experience and demonstrated judgment during serious security events
- Strong technical foundations in cloud infrastructure, operating systems, networking, identity, and attacker tradecraft
- Depth in detection engineering, threat hunting, or digital forensics
- Experience building detection platforms, investigation tools, or response automation
- Ability to evaluate architecture and code and guide senior engineers
- Ability to translate business risk into strategy and deliver through influence and partnership
- Experience protecting enterprise SaaS, sensitive customer data, or AI/ML environments is especially valuable
- Experience investigating insider threats, partnering on privileged-access governance, or leading response under regulatory and public scrutiny is especially valuable
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equity plan
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
- Flexible PTO
- Equal opportunity employment
- Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities