Senior Security Engineer, Detection and Response

🕒 April 21

🏄 California, District of Columbia, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $182k - $202k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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HackerOne

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2012

🔐 Security

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 $49M Series E on 2022-01

Security • Cybersecurity

HackerOne is a platform that connects businesses with ethical hackers to identify and fix security vulnerabilities. It offers services like bug bounty programs, pentest as a service, continuous security testing, vulnerability disclosure programs, AI safety and security testing, and application and cloud security. HackerOne engages a global community of ethical hackers who help businesses secure their digital assets by finding and addressing vulnerabilities. By leveraging both human and AI resources, HackerOne aims to outmatch cybercriminals and enhance security for various sectors, including automotive, financial services, government, healthcare, and retail. The company also provides educational resources, such as Hacker101, to train and develop the skills of people interested in cybersecurity.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain detection-as-code capabilities across cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, endpoints, and identity systems, improving coverage and signal quality through Data-Driven Decision Making • Build automated investigation and response workflows that replace manual runbooks, leveraging AI First principles to scale triage, enrichment, containment, and remediation • Develop and deploy AI/LLM-powered tooling to accelerate investigations, reduce alert fatigue, and extend team capacity beyond traditional headcount constraints, embedding AI First practices into daily workflows • Lead and participate in incident response, including detection, investigation, containment, and retrospectives, applying First Principles Problem Solving to identify root causes and improve long-term resilience • Partner cross-functionally with engineering and platform teams to expand logging, improve observability, and embed detection capabilities into the development lifecycle • Continuously improve detection quality by analyzing alert performance, tuning for signal, and building feedback loops between incidents and detections using Data-Driven Decision Making • Proactively identify gaps in visibility or coverage and translate ambiguous problem spaces into concrete detection and response solutions through First Principles Problem Solving • Adapt quickly to evolving threats, tools, and priorities, helping the team maintain momentum and effectiveness through Change Agility

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in detection and response, security engineering, or software engineering with a security focus • Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in Python, Go, Ruby, or similar languages, and experience working in production codebases • Hands-on experience with cloud environments (AWS preferred), including services such as CloudTrail, GuardDuty, and VPC flow logs • Experience with log aggregation and analysis platforms (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, ELK) and endpoint detection tools (e.g., SentinelOne, CrowdStrike)

🏖️ Benefits

• Health (medical, vision, dental), life, and disability insurance* • Equity stock options • Retirement plans • Paid public holidays and unlimited PTO • Paid maternity and parental leave • Leaves of absence (including caregiver leave and leave under CO's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act) • Employee Assistance Program