# Security Engineer, Detection & Response

**Company:** [Sentry](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sentry)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Toronto, Canada, Ontario, Canada
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** CA$162k – CA$420k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Detection Engineering, Incident Response, Identity And Access Management, Python, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, SIEM, Edr, SAML, CI/CD, Security Log Ingestion
**Posted:** 2026-08-26

> Security engineer responsible for detection engineering, investigations, incident response, identity and access management, and preventative security controls across corporate and production environments. Requires 2+ years of security engineering experience, programming ability, and familiarity with cloud and defensive security tooling.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Maintain, improve, and own detection engineering systems, including detection-stack operations and automated security-response orchestration.
- Perform investigations and contribute to security incident response across corporate and production environments.
- Contribute to, maintain, and operate identity and access management systems.
- Research, identify, and respond to emerging threats relevant to Sentry’s application, cloud, agentic product, and AI-assisted engineering environments.
- Collaborate cross-functionally on preventative controls, defense in depth, alert quality, and adjacent security initiatives spanning application security, infrastructure security, governance, and privacy.

## Requirements
- 2+ years of industry experience in detection and response, corporate security, or generalist security engineering.
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, equivalent training, or professional experience.
- Hands-on experience with several of the following: alert triage, detection tuning and writing, detection-as-code, security log ingestion, investigations, security incident response, identity and access management, phishing response, user access reviews, and endpoint detection and response tooling.
- Programming experience in at least one language, preferably Python, and comfort with agentic development workflows.
- Familiarity with distributed cloud technologies and corporate and defensive security tooling.
- Strong written and verbal communication and a collaborative approach to problem solving.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with AWS, CI/CD, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, SSO, SAML, IAM, EDR, SIEM, CNAPP, or ZTNA.

## Compensation
- Base salary range: $162,000–$420,000 CAD.
- Eligible for incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage.

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