Staff Engineer, Detection and Response

Strategy and influence

• →Own D&R strategy and turn it into multi-quarter initiatives tied to Security KRs. Report progress and risks to leadership in business terms.
• →Work with Engineering, Infrastructure and IT so logging, telemetry and response readiness are planned into their roadmaps early.
• →Set D&R standards: detections and response as code, review practices, playbook quality, and AI-assisted workflows.
• →Mentor engineers to own detections and lead incidents, and help raise the hiring bar.

Detection engineering and observability

• →Own detection architecture and the multi-quarter coverage plan: log sources, enrichment, correlation, alert routing, and cost at scale.
• →Own security observability: telemetry onboarding, signal quality, threat intel inputs and alert tuning.
• →Run the detection lifecycle: intake and prioritization, unit tests, replay against historical data, attack simulation, and regular reviews of coverage gaps, latency, false positives and MTTD.
• →Stay hands-on: ship MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detections, threat hunts and automations in Panther and Python via Git and CI/CD.

Incident response

• →Own and improve the IR plan: severity model, roles, escalation, communications, on-call and playbooks for our top scenarios.
• →Build IR readiness: tabletop exercises with Engineering, Legal, Fraud and leadership, plus response automation and forensic readiness.
• →Measure IR quality (MTTA/MTTR by severity, repeat incidents, action closure) and feed every incident’s lessons back into detections, automation and process.
• →Lead high-severity incidents as senior technical lead or incident commander across cloud, SaaS and corporate systems.

• 8+ years in detection and response, detection engineering, security engineering or incident response.
• Track record of leading D&R strategy or multi-quarter initiatives with measurable results.
• Hands-on experience designing detection architecture and shipping detection systems on a modern SIEM (Panther highly valued).
• Strong Python, Git, CI/CD and detection-as-code skills.
• Experience leading high-severity incidents in cloud and SaaS environments and improving the IR process behind them.
• Cloud and SaaS expertise, ideally GCP, plus familiarity with tools like Google Workspace, Okta, GitHub, Slack, Atlassian, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Kandji and Snowflake.
• Sound judgment with incomplete information, and the influence to align technical and non-technical leaders without formal authority.

• Staff, Lead or Principal-level experience at a high-growth cloud or SaaS company.
• AI-assisted triage, investigation or response in production, with a clear view of its limits.
• Public security work (detection content, open-source tools, talks, research) or certifications such as GCIA, GCIH or GCED.

• A D&R strategy tied to Security KRs, with telemetry work committed in other teams’ roadmaps.
• Better detection coverage and precision for top threats, and a tested IR process with faster MTTD/MTTR and fewer repeat incidents.
• AI-assisted triage and response in production, with a measurable drop in manual toil.

Tech stack
Panther (SIEM), Python, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Google Workspace, Okta, GitHub, Slack, Atlassian, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Kandji, Snowflake. AI tools: Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Glean.

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