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Security Engineer – Detection and Response
Lambda
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $296,000 - $445,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformLinuxPythonSplunk
About the role
- Build and operate detection systems and detection engineering capabilities across Lambda's infrastructure
- Qualify reports and lead incident response from initial triage through remediation and retrospective
- Develop tools and workflows to automate incident response and reduce mean time to resolution
- Drive prioritization and remediation of security findings across engineering teams in coordination with Security Technical Program Management
- Participate in on-call rotation and 24/7 security operations to ensure rapid response to security events
- Research and operationalize threat intelligence specific to AI infrastructure and Lambda's threat landscape
- Proactively threat hunt for indicators of compromise and suspicious activity
- Leverage Lambda-hosted LLMs to implement AI-powered detection, automated triage, and intelligent alert correlation
- Support tabletop exercises and red team activities to test and improve detection coverage and response capabilities
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on security engineering experience and 5+ years of total engineering experience
- Thrive in high-speed, high-ambiguity startup environments
- Deep technical expertise with security tooling including SIEM/SOAR platforms, EDR solutions, vulnerability scanners, and cloud security monitoring
- Excel at solving problems in Python, Go, or similar languages, building automations that scale security impact
- Proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional technical teams both with and without authority
- Strong Linux systems experience in both bare metal and cloud environments, understanding infrastructure from kernel to application layer
- Excellence at translating security concerns into business risk
- Experience building or contributing to detection engineering programs or incident response capabilities (nice to have)
- Experience with threat intelligence platforms, threat hunting methodologies, or purple team exercises (nice to have)
- Deep experience with specific SIEM platforms (Splunk, Elastic, Chronicle) or SOAR solutions (nice to have)
- Experience driving or providing significant evidence for compliance audits such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, or FedRAMP (nice to have)
- Experience developing detection content shared with the security community (Sigma rules, YARA, etc.) (nice to have)
- Experience responding to incidents in both cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and bare metal environments (nice to have)
- Security certifications like GCIH, GNFA, GCIA, or similar (nice to have)
- Experience with forensics, malware analysis, or reverse engineering (nice to have)
- Excitement about leveraging LLMs for detection and response (nice to have)
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