Security Engineer, Detection and Response

Serval
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 200,000 - 325,000 annuallyFunction: CybersecurityExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Problem-solving","Team management"]

Lead and scale Serval's cybersecurity detection and response operations. Set strategy, build and mentor a team across observability, detection and response, and threat intelligence; ensure design-by-security in systems, incident readiness, and continuous improvement of detection across cloud, production, and corporate environments.

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Serval
3 months ago

Security Engineer, Detection and Response

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Job Summary

Lead and scale Serval's cybersecurity detection and response operations. Set strategy, build and mentor a team across observability, detection and response, and threat intelligence; ensure design-by-security in systems, incident readiness, and continuous improvement of detection across cloud, production, and corporate environments.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Cybersecurity
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, implement, and operate detection and response operations, including continuous monitoring, triage, investigation, containment, and remediation of security events across networks and infrastructure.
  • •Build, lead, and directly mentor a team spanning observability, detection and response, and threat intelligence, hiring and scaling these functions as Serval's footprint grows.
  • •Ensure world-class operational rigor and readiness through incident playbooks, on-call and escalation paths, tabletop exercises, and continuous improvement of response quality and speed.
  • •Improve detection quality and coverage by partnering with engineering teams to ensure critical telemetry is available, reliable, and actionable across cloud, corporate, and production environments.
  • •Partner deeply across Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure to embed detection and response into Serval's systems by design rather than as an afterthought.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200,000 - 325,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years in cybersecurity with deep expertise in detection engineering, incident response, and security operations.
  • •Deep experience building and leading detection and response, instrumentation/observability, and threat intelligence teams.
  • •Stellar leadership skills with a history of durable, continuous improvements to programs, processes, and people.
  • •Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, ability to manage security incidents with diverse stakeholders.
  • •Deep expertise in modern observability stacks (e.g., SIEM, data lakes, EDR, cloud telemetry, logging) and detection primitives.
Experience:10+ yearsCybersecuritySecurity operationsObservabilityThreat intelligence
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingTeam management
Tech Stack:SIEMEDRCloud telemetryLoggingData lakesObservabilityThreat intelligence

Company Brief

Serval
Serval builds software solutions for secure communications and collaboration, offering tools that help teams connect, share data, and coordinate workflows across distributed environments.
Industry: SaaS
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