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Senior Detection and Response Engineer

Faire
Location
San Francisco, CA
Posted
23 days ago
Department
Security
Salary
$174,500 to $240,000
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Deep hands-on experience in detection engineering, incident response, or security operations
  • Depth in corporate attack surfaces such as identity providers and SSO, endpoint and EDR telemetry, email security, SaaS logs, device management signals, and corporate network access
  • Strong proficiency in Python and query language such as SQL
  • Ability to build and maintain detection-as-code pipelines
  • Practical experience with SIEM, EDR, and security analytics platforms
  • Investigative depth on endpoints and in cloud and SaaS environments
Nice to have
  • Experience as a founding security hire
  • Insider threat or data loss detection experience
  • Offensive security background against corporate identity and endpoint paths
  • Incident commander experience
  • Endpoint or cloud forensics depth
What the job really is

As a Senior Detection and Response Engineer at Faire, you'll be responsible for building and shaping the detection and response capabilities within the enterprise environment. This includes monitoring threats across various systems, developing telemetry pipelines, and automating responses to alerts. You'll work collaboratively with multiple teams to improve security controls and ensure effective incident management.

Benefits
  • Competitive pay
  • Equity
  • Comprehensive benefits designed to support life inside and outside of work
  • Hybrid work model with flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year
Things to weigh
  • Role is zero-to-one, meaning high autonomy but also ambiguity in initial direction
  • Salary range is provided but may change in the future
  • Hybrid work model requires in-office attendance three days a week
  • No specific mention of professional development opportunities
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