Detection and Response Engineer
ModalServerless AI company
New York, United StatesMid
Lux Capital
Redpoint Ventures
Amplify Partners
Creandum
General Catalyst
Definition Capital
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Build systems to detect, investigate, and respond to threats on Modal's AI infrastructure platform.
- •Modal is building the infrastructure layer for AI.
- •This role focuses on building systems to detect, investigate, and respond to threats across their platform, leveraging AI for enhanced signal and speed.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and build high-fidelity detections for attacks and anomalous behavior.
- •Lead or participate in incident investigations across cloud and production systems.
- •Build internal tooling and automation to improve security workflows, leveraging LLMs.
- •Partner with engineering teams to ensure systems are observable and secure by default.
- •Requirements Experience in detection engineering, incident response, or security engineering.
- •Strong software engineering skills with experience building production systems.
- •Experience investigating security incidents in cloud-native environments.
- •Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Linux, and networking.
- •Strong SQL skills for security event investigation.
Required skills
PythonSQLBashKubernetesLinuxAWSGoogle CloudAzureDockerCI/CDLLMsOpenAI APIAnthropic APIGemini APILangChain
Nice-to-have skills
Hugging Face
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Tech stack
PythonSQLBashKubernetesLinuxAWSGoogle CloudAzureDockerCI/CDLLMsOpenAI APIAnthropic APIGemini APILangChainHugging Face
