Caribou

Senior Security Engineer, Automated Detection & Response

Caribou

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: ArizonaColoradoUnited States

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Salary

💰 $154,000 - $193,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Maintain strong security posture by leading SOC investigations, threat hunting, and incident response
  • Improve MTTD and MTTR in Year 1 by designing and building AI-assisted triage automation and reducing manual effort
  • Cut false positive rate and improve threat visibility by injecting business context into detection logic
  • Identify adversaries who bypass automated detection through proactive threat hunting
  • Build cross-functional relationships to understand our customers, products, and processes

Requirements

  • SOC experience: Alert triage, investigations, and incident response in a regulated environment (fintech, healthcare, etc.)
  • SIEM proficiency: Strong experience with at least one major platform; you write detection rules, not just consume dashboards
  • EDR investigation experience: You've used an EDR platform for real investigations, not just reviewed dashboards
  • Builder track record: You've automated security workflows and reduced manual toil, including building with AI tools to achieve real outcomes
  • Cloud & automation: Experience defending cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure) and building automation in at least one language
  • Honest Security alignment: You believe security teams should partner with employees, not surveil them
  • Nice to have: GCP SecOps/Chronicle, CrowdStrike, Python, prior fintech experience
Benefits
  • Competitive compensation: $154-193k
  • Eligible for annual performance-based incentive
  • Equity options
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Generous paid time off including Flexible Time Off (FTO) for all employees and 100% paid parental leave for all parents
  • Exceptional benefits including highly subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans, and fully company-paid mental health, disability, and basic life insurance
  • Optional benefits to suit your individual circumstances such as HSAs (with Caribou HSA contributions), FSAs, supplemental life and health, legal, and pet insurance
  • Up to $1,000 per year for eligible professional development expenses

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
SOC experienceSIEM proficiencyEDR investigationAI-assisted triage automationcloud securityautomationdetection rulesthreat huntingincident responsePython
Soft skills
cross-functional relationshipscustomer understandingprocess understandinghonest security alignment