Staff Engineer, Incident Response

Lead incident response efforts, develop threat detections, and collaborate across teams.

• •We're hiring a Staff Incident Response Engineer to anchor a16z's detection and response work.
• •Key Responsibilities Run incidents end to end, from first alert to post-mortem, across cloud and SaaS environments Write the detections that catch real threats, with a strong bias toward signal over noise and broad MITRE ATT&CK coverage Partner across the firm during incidents: investing teams, Legal, Compliance, Finance, IT, and firm leadership all get pulled in, and this role keeps every audience aligned under pressure Requirements Run incidents end to end, from first alert to post-mortem, across cloud and SaaS environments Write the detections that catch real threats, with a strong bias toward signal over noise and broad MITRE ATT&CK coverage Help shape the next generation of our SOC, including AI agent integration into triage and response workflows Partner across the firm during incidents: investing teams, Legal, Compliance, Finance, IT, and firm leadership all get pulled in, and this role keeps every audience aligned under pressure Drive post-mortems that lead to operational change, not process for its own sake