Detection and Response Engineer

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New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 150,000 - 270,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Incident investigation","Automation mindset","Collaboration"]

Build detections, investigation tooling, and automated response capabilities that scale across Modal’s cloud, containers, identity systems, and production services. Improve telemetry quality and visibility, lead or support incident investigations, and create playbooks and automation to reduce investigation time and improve response consistency. Partner with infrastructure, platform, and security teams to instrument services securely by default, using LLMs where they improve signal and operational effectiveness.

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Detection and Response Engineer

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Job Summary

Build detections, investigation tooling, and automated response capabilities that scale across Modal’s cloud, containers, identity systems, and production services. Improve telemetry quality and visibility, lead or support incident investigations, and create playbooks and automation to reduce investigation time and improve response consistency. Partner with infrastructure, platform, and security teams to instrument services securely by default, using LLMs where they improve signal and operational effectiveness.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build high-fidelity detections for attacks, abuse, and anomalous behavior across infrastructure and production systems.
  • •Continuously improve detections using telemetry, threat intelligence, and lessons learned from incidents.
  • •Lead or participate in investigations across production infrastructure, cloud environments, and internal systems.
  • •Build playbooks and automation to reduce investigation time and improve response consistency.
  • •Build security tooling and leverage LLMs to automate repetitive analysis and surface actionable insights from security telemetry.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 270,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Experience in detection engineering, incident response, security engineering, or software engineering with a strong security focus.
  • •Strong software engineering skills building production systems.
  • •Experience investigating security incidents in cloud-native or distributed environments.
  • •Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Linux, and networking.
  • •Strong SQL skills for investigating security events and developing detections, plus strong written and verbal communication skills.
Experience:CloudSecurity engineeringIncident responseDistributed systems
Skills:CommunicationIncident investigationAutomation mindsetCollaboration
Tech Stack:SQLKubernetesLinuxLLMsAISIEMSOAREDRThreat intelligenceTelemetryCloud infrastructureContainersNetworking

Company Brief

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Provides a serverless, high-performance cloud platform for AI, ML, and data workloads — offering instant autoscaling, elastic GPU access, and developer-first tooling to run inference, training, and batch jobs at scale.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Founded: 2021
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