Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response
Flexport · Engineering
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- Senior
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $206K–$252K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 2 months ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
About Flexport
At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and…
What you'll do
There is no MSSP and no tier-1 queue here. Detection & Response engineers own their detections end to end: you write them, you tune them, and your team is paged when they fire. The security team is spread across the globe with a follow-the-sun pager rotation…
You Should Have
Typically 5–8 years of experience in detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting, with real hands-on time writing and tuning detections. We care more about what you've built than the exact number. Proficiency in at least one programming…
Nice to have
Experience treating detections as code with CI/CD, peer review, and staged rollout. Experience defining telemetry contracts for systems before they ship, rather than retrofitting logging after an incident. A track record of critically evaluating and verifying…
How we work
We're in the San Francisco office regularly to work through incidents and detection design in person. We stay closely aligned with teammates on other continents via Slack, video, and async docs. We have the latest hardware and software, including frontier AI…
Why this role is special
You own your detections end to end, no MSSP, no tier-1 queue, no handing your work to someone else to triage. The consequences here are physical, not abstract: a containment decision can stop a customs filing or freight actually moving, which makes the stakes…
Where you'll work
This role is based in San Francisco, and we have a strong preference for candidates who are there or willing to relocate — we're deliberately building this team in one place. Relocation support is available for the right candidate. Investing your time with…
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