Staff Detection & Response Engineer
SunoGenerative AI company
Boston, United States$230,000 to 330,000Lead
Menlo Ventures
NVentures
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Hallwood Media
Matrix
Nat Friedman
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Design and build detection and response systems to protect the company's environment.
- •We’re looking for a Senior / Staff Detection & Response Engineer to design and own how we detect and respond to threats across our environment.
- •This is a hands-on senior role for an engineer who wants to build detection and response the right way from the ground up and own it end to end.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and build our detection and telemetry pipeline.
- •Write high-signal detections mapped to the threats that matter most.
- •Build and own incident response playbooks, on-call, live response, and post-incident reviews.
- •Partner with security and platform engineering to close telemetry gaps.
- •Requirements 6+ years in detection and response, including building detection capability.
- •Strong AWS-native detection depth (CloudTrail, GuardDuty, VPC/flow logs).
- •A detection-as-code, engineering-first mindset.
- •Calm, structured, and decisive in a live incident.
Required skills
AWSCI/CDIAMPythonLinuxGit
Nice-to-have skills
DockerKubernetesREST APIPenetration TestingSOC 2Vault
Domain expertise
entertainment-musicdeveloper-toolsai
Benefits & perks
Company Equity Package, 401(k) with 3% Employer Match & Roth 401(k), Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (PPO w/ HSA & FSA options), 11 Paid Holidays + Unlimited PTO & Sick Time, 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Creative Education Stipend, Generous Commuter Allowance, In-Office Lunch (5 days per week)
Tech stack
PythonAWSGitLinuxDockerKubernetesCI/CDIAMREST API