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Senior Security Engineer, Detection and Response

Senior Security Engineer builds threat detections, leads incident response, and automates security operations in cloud/SaaS environments. Requires 5+ years experience with SIEM, SOAR, Python, AWS/GCP.

156k – 210k/yr
Remote5+ YOESecurity Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and improve threat detections across infrastructure, products, tools, and environments
  • Lead security incident response: investigation, containment, remediation, and post-incident learning
  • Apply threat intelligence and attacker TTPs to detection, threat hunting, triage, and prioritization
  • Collaborate with Security, Infrastructure, and IT on visibility, logging, and readiness
  • Use automation, scripting, and Detection-as-Code to scale workflows
  • Own end-to-end security projects
  • Participate in on-call rotation for high-severity incidents
  • Contribute to playbooks, mentoring, exercises, audits, and initiatives

Requirements

  • 5+ years in security engineering, with 3+ years in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response
  • Hands-on with SIEMs, SOAR, behavior analytics, Detection-as-Code
  • Understanding of attacker techniques in cloud-native, SaaS, identity environments
  • Experience with endpoint, runtime, forensic tools across OSes
  • Knowledge of AWS, GCP, cloud security best practices
  • Proficiency in Python, Bash, Terraform, CI/CD
  • Strong communication skills

Compensation

USA: $156,000 - $210,000 USD Canada: $143,000 - $193,000 CAD Plus benefits, PTO, equity, incentives.

Skills

SIEMSoarDetection-As-CodePythonBashTerraformAWSGCPThreat HuntingIncident Response
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