Detection & Response Security Engineer

$188k - $282k Remote San Francisco FullTime

Posted 3mo ago

Job Location

San Francisco

Remote Work Policy

Fully remote

Employment Type

FullTime

Categories

Applied AI Engineer

About the job

Harvey is seeking an offensive security-minded blue teamer to proactively identify and mitigate threats against the company's infrastructure. This role offers the opportunity to leverage offensive security expertise to model threats, prioritize defenses, and build a state-of-the-art agentic threat detection platform. As an early member of the Security Detection and Response team, you will play a key role in shaping the foundation of the program, contributing code daily and approaching security with an engineering-first mindset. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of computer networks, operating systems, and cryptographic protocols, with a demonstrated ability to find weaknesses in real-world corporate networks, cloud environments, or applications.

Responsibilities

  • Develop plausible threat scenarios and identify detection opportunities using offensive security expertise.
  • Assess logs for gaps and implement additional logging as needed.
  • Build sophisticated data pipelines for increasing data volumes and enriching observability.
  • Lead incident response efforts.
  • Develop and maintain effective detection rules in collaboration with other D&R Engineers.
  • Participate in table-top and red team exercises to evaluate detection efficacy.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated ability to find weaknesses (e.g., privilege escalation) in real-world corporate networks, cloud environments, or applications.
  • Hands-on experience responding to security incidents.
  • Strong understanding of computer networks, operating systems, and cryptographic protocols.
  • 4+ years of experience in Security, Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related disciplines.

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