# Senior Manager, Detection & Response

**Company:** [Confluent](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/confluent)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $242k – $319k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Security Engineering, Detection Engineering, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Kubernetes, Kafka, ETL, AWS, GCP, Azure, Stream Processing, Telemetry Stacks, Python, Java
**Posted:** 2026-07-28

> Lead Confluent's Detection & Response organization in Infrastructure Security. Define vision and roadmap for threat detection, investigation, and response across multi-cloud environments while building and mentoring a global distributed engineering team.

## Job Description

## What You Will Do
- Own the strategic vision and roadmap execution for Confluent's Detection & Response program across our multi-cloud infrastructure.
- Build, scale, and mentor a distributed, global team across North America and India.
- Drive the evolution of detection engineering and incident response capabilities by utilizing modern software practices with an emphasis on large scale automation.
- Oversee security incident response operations, serving as an escalation point/Incident Commander during high-severity security events and driving post-incident reviews.
- Establish or improve operational metrics to continuously evaluate and improve program maturity.
- Partner closely with Engineering, and stakeholders across Legal and Compliance teams, to integrate detection telemetry and proactive response across the company.
- Champion an engineering-centric security culture focused on automation, noise reduction, and continuous improvement to minimize operational toil for responders.

## What You Will Bring
- 12+ years of experience in software development, security engineering, or security operations, with 5+ years in direct engineering or security management.
- Proven track record of building, coaching, and scaling engineering teams across multiple time zones.
- Deep technical domain expertise across detection engineering, incident response, and threat intelligence.
- Experience building or operating scalable data/event pipelines, modern telemetry stacks, or stream-processing architectures.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex, high-severity security incidents with composure, clarity, and cross-functional leadership.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to translate complex security risks into clear strategic priorities for engineering leadership.
- Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

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