Senior Security Engineer

Bellevue, WA Full-time Hybrid $146k — $220k per year 10/26/2026 Job ID: 000548
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Detection & Response Incident Response Security Operations Command Presence Cloud & Infrastructure

Summary

What you’ll impact

The Senior Security Engineer leads incident response workstreams and designs detection engineering frameworks to safeguard the organization’s assets. They use cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and AI‑driven automation to build and tune a global detection catalog and SOAR playbooks. Responsibilities include creating AI‑native detection platforms, analyzing multi‑language code for vulnerabilities, and participating in on‑call rotations for real‑time readiness. Collaboration spans security, infrastructure, and legal teams, driving advanced security operations innovation and 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.

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