Security Response Engineer, Detection Engineering

October 22

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Chainlink Labs

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Finance • Fintech • Web 3

Chainlink Labs is a leading player in the field of decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain technology. The company is pioneering the use of decentralized systems to facilitate onchain transactions for financial institutions and marketplaces. By collaborating with financial market infrastructures, asset managers, and top DeFi protocols, Chainlink Labs is driving the transition to a tokenized asset economy and aims to become the global standard for onchain finance. With expertise in cryptography and a robust track record in security, Chainlink Labs provides a platform that powers a global system of onchain finance.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

🌐 Web 3

📋 Description

• Own detection engineering as a product: set the roadmap and drive measurable outcomes • Build and run telemetry pipelines • Establish team-wide standards: lead the standardization of internal security tooling, infrastructure deployment strategy, and access methods • Proactively identify and implement areas of improvement and modernization • Shape our EDR/SIEM strategy: act as a key stakeholder in evaluations, migrations, and architecture decisions • Join the team's on-call rotation to assist in writing, tuning, and triaging detections, as well as coordinating the response to security incidents

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading detection engineering efforts (logging pipelines, enrichment/automation, quality monitoring): owned the roadmap and delivered measurable outcomes. • Hands‑on experience managing and deploying security infrastructure and tooling (IaC, containerization, remote access). • Track record of authoring and tuning detections across endpoint, cloud, identity, and/or network telemetry. • Operational rigor: served in a security on‑call rotation and acted as incident coordinator for high‑severity events with multiple external stakeholders • Led a cross-functional initiative to ship a security-related capability. • Previous coding experience (Python, Go, Rust, or similar).

🏖️ Benefits

• All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. • We carefully review all applications and aim to provide a response to every candidate within two weeks after the job posting closes.