Summary
What you’ll impact
The Senior Security Engineer is responsible for leading incident response efforts and building robust detection engineering frameworks to protect the organization’s platforms. This role leverages cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes orchestration, and AI‑driven automation to develop high‑precision detection catalogs and autonomous security operations. Key duties include designing and tuning scalable detection pipelines, creating SOAR playbooks, analyzing multi‑language codebases for vulnerabilities, and maintaining on‑call operational readiness. The engineer collaborates with cross‑functional security, infrastructure, and legal teams, driving strategic innovation in autonomous security operations while mentoring peers on best practices.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
- Lead Incident Response: Command security incident response workstreams with decisive leadership, rapidly containing threats, quantifying impact, and communicating effectively with leadership.
- Elevate Detection Rigor: Build, tune, and maintain our global detection catalog across our cloud and kubernetes environments to ensure high precision and actionable alerting.
- Drive Strategic Innovation: Architect our Autonomic Security Operations (ASO) roadmap, integrating AI agents and automated issue discovery to transform response capabilities.
- Code & Architecture Analysis: Read and reason through complex, multi-language codebases to identify security vulnerabilities, evaluate threat vectors, and guide remediation.
- On-Call Support: Participate in an on-call rotation (1 week per rotation) to maintain real-time operational readiness.
Requirements
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of experience in Detection & Response, Incident Response, or Security Operations.
- Proven Command Presence: Demonstrated success leading complex incident responses under pressure with clear, action-oriented executive communication.
- Deep Cloud & Infrastructure Expertise: Advanced technical experience securing cloud environments with a focus on Kubernetes.
- Code Reasoning Skills: Ability to fluently read, analyze, and reason through code across multiple programming languages to solve complex security challenges.
- Detection Engineering Mastery: Track record of designing, tuning, and operating scalable detection engineering pipelines and SOAR playbooks, as well as leveraging AI technologies to improve speed, scale, and quality.
- AI Experience: Hands-on experience designing and implementing agentic AI workflows for security operations.
- Agility: Ability to thrive in high-growth, fast-paced environments with evolving threat landscapes.