# Staff Detection & Response Engineer

**Company:** [Suno](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/suno)
**Location:** Boston, MA, New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $230k – $330k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** AWS, cloudtrail, guardduty, vpc logs, flow logs, detection-as-code, Incident Response, telemetry, threat detection, ai/ml security
**Posted:** 2026-08-04

> Owns detection engineering and incident response across cloud infrastructure, building telemetry, high-signal detections, response playbooks, and on-call practices. The role requires 6+ years of detection and response experience, strong AWS expertise, and interest in emerging AI/ML threats.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and build the detection and telemetry pipeline, including logging coverage, the detection stack, and the data that feeds it.
- Write high-signal detections mapped to priority threats, including identity, access, cloud control plane, and data exfiltration paths.
- Build and own incident response, including playbooks, on-call, live response, and post-incident reviews.
- Partner with security and platform engineering to close telemetry gaps and instrument previously unseen areas.
- Establish detection-as-code practices and a metrics-driven approach to response.
- Build detection for AI-specific abuse, threats, and novel attack patterns.
- Leverage AI to augment security operations.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in detection and response, including building detection capabilities and setting direction.
- Strong AWS-native detection experience, including CloudTrail, GuardDuty, VPC logs, flow logs, and the broader AWS ecosystem.
- Detection-as-code and engineering-first mindset.
- Calm, structured, and decisive incident response approach.
- Interest in detecting emerging AI/ML abuse and threat patterns.

## Nice to Haves
- Experience with consumer products at scale.
- Experience as an early or founding detection hire.
- Exposure to AI/ML abuse or platform-abuse signals.

## Compensation & Benefits
- $230,000–$330,000 annual compensation.
- Company equity package.
- 401(k) with 3% employer match and Roth 401(k).
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with PPO, HSA, and FSA options.
- 11 paid holidays, unlimited PTO, and sick time.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Creative education stipend.
- Generous commuter allowance.
- In-office lunch five days per week.
- Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
- The role requires working onsite at one of the company’s three offices.

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