Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response (SOC)

About the Role

We're maturing Information Security's detection, incident response, and forensics capabilities, and we're looking for a seasoned SOC engineer to help lead that effort alongside the existing team. This is a hands-on role spanning monitoring, triage, response, and forensics, with real ownership over how the program evolves from here.

What You'll Do

• Own Detection & Monitoring: Own how we monitor and triage events and alerts ingested into the SIEM, working with the team to tune detection content, reduce false positives, and close coverage gaps.
• Build the Playbooks: Lead the design and continuous improvement of incident response playbooks, so response is consistent and repeatable across the team, even when you're not the one running it.
• Threat Hunt: Lead our threat hunting practice, proactively hunting for malicious or anomalous activity that alerting and automated detection don't catch.
• Mature Forensics Capability: Strengthen our digital forensics capability, including the processes and tooling that support investigations and evidence handling.
• Automate the Response: Drive automation for alerting, enrichment, and triage across the team's workflows to cut manual toil and reduce time to respond.
• Respond to Incidents: React to and lead response on incidents as they fire, coordinating across business partners as needed.
• Document and Learn: Document incidents, root cause, and remediation with clarity and rigor.
• Own Post-Incident Reviews: Build a structured, blameless post-incident review process, with real root-cause analysis, action items tracked to closure, and follow-through that goes beyond a debrief call.
• Mature the Program: Shape how the program measures itself and scales, evolving IR metrics, escalation paths, and priorities over time.

Qualifications

Required

• Experience building or significantly maturing a SOC/IR function, taking a program from early-stage to production-ready.
• 5+ years in a SOC, incident response, or detection engineering role, with demonstrated ownership of an IR or monitoring program, outside of queue work.
• Strong grasp of the full incident response lifecycle: preparation, detection, containment, eradication, recovery, and lessons learned.
• Hands-on SIEM experience: log ingestion, correlation rules, detection tuning (platform-agnostic).
• Experience with forensic analysis and evidence handling across host, network, and/or cloud environments.
• Comfort building automation/scripting for triage and response workflows (Python or similar).
• Working knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK and common threat actor TTPs.
• Ability to define risk in both technical and business-relevant terms.
• Clear written communication.

Standout Qualifications

• Relevant certifications (GCIH, GCFA, GCIA, OSCP, or equivalent).
• SOAR platform experience.
• Prior experience in fintech, gaming, or another high-fraud-risk industry.
• Experience running detection and IR in a distributed/remote workforce, leaning on endpoint and identity signals rather than a centralized network perimeter.

Work Authorization

You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.