# Detection & Response Security Engineer

**Company:** [Harvey](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/harvey)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $188k – $282k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Offensive Security, Incident Response, Threat Detection, Data Pipelines, ClickHouse, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Cryptographic Protocols, Privilege Escalation, Red Teaming
**Posted:** 2026-04-08

> Offensive-minded blue teamer building and leading Harvey's Detection & Response program. Develop threat scenarios, detection rules, data pipelines on ClickHouse, and lead incident response for their AI platform. Requires 4+ years in security/SRE/software engineering with hands-on incident response and weakness discovery experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build strong relationships with key employees across the organization.
- Use offensive security expertise to develop plausible threat scenarios and identify opportunities for detection.
- Assess logs for gaps and implement additional logging as needed.
- Build out sophisticated data pipelines to handle increasing volumes of data and enrich our observability.
- Lead incident response, as needed.
- Develop detection rules and a process for keeping them effective in collaboration with our other D&R Engineers.
- Participate in table-top and redteam exercises to evaluate efficacy.

## Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to find weaknesses (e.g. privilege escalation) in real-world corporate networks, cloud environments, or applications.
- Hands-on experience responding to security incidents.
- Strong understanding of computer networks, operating systems, and cryptographic protocols.
- 4+ years of experience in Security, Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related disciplines.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience working at a small company, smaller independent division of larger company, or a hyper-growth startup.
- Experience with ClickHouse or similar data warehouses.
- Red team experience.
- Experience in incident commander role, managing security incidents or other disasters.

## Compensation
$188,000 - $282,000

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