Senior Manager, Detection & Response – Security Engineering

🕒 July 28

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $241.7k - $319k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Confluent

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

💰 Secondary Market on 2021-06

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Cloud Computing

Confluent is a company that specializes in data streaming platforms which turn real-time data events into actionable outcomes. Their solutions enable the development of intelligent, real-time applications, empowering teams and systems to respond to data instantly. Confluent builds a new data category that impacts the real world by providing the infrastructure for real-time data streaming, which is recognized and partnered with major tech companies like Google Cloud and Microsoft. The company maintains a remote-first culture, hiring talent from over 25 countries, and values diversity and inclusivity in their workplace.

📋 Description

• Own the strategic vision and roadmap execution for Confluent's Detection & Response program across our multi-cloud infrastructure. • Build, scale, and mentor a distributed, global team across North America and India. • Drive the evolution of detection engineering and incident response capabilities by utilizing modern software practices with an emphasis on large scale automation. • Oversee security incident response operations, serving as an escalation point/Incident Commander during high-severity security events and driving post-incident reviews. • Establish or improve operational metrics to continuously evaluate and improve program maturity. • Partner closely with Engineering, and stakeholders across Legal and Compliance teams, to integrate detection telemetry and proactive response across the company. • Champion an engineering-centric security culture focused on automation, noise reduction, and continuous improvement to minimize operational toil for responders.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in software development, security engineering, or security operations, with 5+ years in direct engineering or security management. • Proven track record of building, coaching, and scaling engineering teams across multiple time zones. • Deep technical domain expertise across detection engineering, incident response, and threat intelligence. Experience building or operating scalable data/event pipelines, modern telemetry stacks, or stream-processing architectures. • Demonstrated ability to lead complex, high-severity security incidents with composure, clarity, and cross-functional leadership. • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to translate complex security risks into clear strategic priorities for engineering leadership. • Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• Offers Equity