Staff Engineer, Security Operations

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $225.4k - $338.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🛡️ Security Operations

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Apollo.io

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

B2B • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Apollo. io is an all-in-one sales platform designed to streamline and enhance sales operations from lead generation to deal management. The platform offers tools for contact and account search, scores and signals analysis, inbound optimization, sales engagement, and more, leveraging AI and a living data network for comprehensive sales intelligence. Apollo. io is ideal for sales professionals, marketers, and revenue operations teams aiming to enhance productivity and efficiency by automating workflow tasks and integrating CRM systems. With a focus on improving sales performance through analytics and conversation intelligence, Apollo. io helps businesses find the right leads at the right time, nurture those leads effectively, and close deals efficiently.

📋 Description

• Lead detection and response strategy for Apollo’s Security team and deliver it hands-on • Build detection systems, response automations and investigation tools • Lead complex and high-severity incidents across cloud, SaaS and corporate systems • Own D&R strategy and translate it into multi-quarter initiatives tied to Security KRs • Report progress and risks to leadership in business terms • Coordinate with Engineering, Infrastructure and IT on logging, telemetry and response readiness • Set D&R standards for detection and response as code, review practices, playbook quality and AI-assisted workflows • Mentor engineers and help raise the hiring bar • Own detection architecture and multi-quarter coverage planning • Manage security observability, telemetry onboarding, signal quality, threat intelligence inputs and alert tuning • Run the detection lifecycle, including intake, prioritization, unit tests, historical replay, attack simulation and coverage reviews • Ship MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detections, threat hunts and automations in Panther and Python via Git and CI/CD • Own and improve the incident response plan, severity model, roles, escalation, communications, on-call and playbooks • Conduct tabletop exercises with Engineering, Legal, Fraud and leadership • Build response automation and forensic readiness • Measure MTTA, MTTR, repeat incidents and action closure • Use AI and agents for triage, enrichment, investigation and response with appropriate guardrails • Define detection approaches for misuse of Apollo’s AI systems and agent features

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in detection and response, detection engineering, security engineering or incident response • Track record of leading D&R strategy or multi-quarter initiatives with measurable results • Hands-on experience designing detection architecture and shipping detection systems on a modern SIEM; Panther highly valued • Strong Python, Git, CI/CD and detection-as-code skills • Experience leading high-severity incidents in cloud and SaaS environments and improving the IR process behind them • Cloud and SaaS expertise, ideally GCP • Familiarity with Google Workspace, Okta, GitHub, Slack, Atlassian, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Kandji and Snowflake • Sound judgment with incomplete information • Ability to influence technical and non-technical leaders without formal authority

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses • 401(k) plan • At least 10 paid holidays per year • Flex PTO • Parental leave • Employee assistance program • Wellbeing benefits • Global travel coverage • Life insurance • AD&D insurance • STD insurance • LTD insurance • FSA/HSA • Medical benefits • Dental benefits • Vision benefits • Resources, support, and autonomy for professional growth