Security Engineer, Detection & ResponseNew$155K–$400K

The opportunity

The Security Team is responsible for securing all things Sentry: our customers, our code, and everything in between. We are a small but growing team with broad scope, high trust, and the autonomy to tackle hard security problems with creativity and an engineering mindset.

What you'll do

  • Maintain, improve, and own detection engineering systems. We own and operate: our own detection stack and are building agentic triage with thoughtful security response and orchestration automation.

  • Perform investigations, and contribute to security incident response. You: will assist and contribute to a breadth of incident types, or Sentry and our customers.

  • Contribute to, maintain, and operate identity and access management systems.: Access management is a critical component of our security program.

  • Have a lot of opportunity to grow and learn across many security domains. We: are a highly cross-functional team and you will have opportunities to touch adjacent security projects spanning appsec, infrasec, governance, and privacy.

  • Research, identify, and respond to emerging threats relevant to Sentry. We: build and operate a complex application and cloud environment, including the novel attack surface introduced by Sentry's agentic product features and AI-assisted engineering practices.

  • Enjoy operating cross-functionally, building relationships, and influencing: with technical expertise as you protect a fast-moving engineering organization.

What they're looking for

  • + years of industry experience in a detection and response, corporate: security, or generalist security engineering role
  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field, equivalent training, or professional experience
  • Hands-on experience with several of the following: alert triage, detection tuning and writing, detection-as-code, security log ingestion, investigations and security incident response, identity and access management (IAM), phishing response, user access reviews, managing endpoint detection and response tooling
  • Experienced and comfortable programing in at least one language (Python: preferred) and comfortable using agentic development workflows
  • Familiarity with operating distributed cloud technology (AWS, CICD, GCP,: Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, etc.) and experience with corporate (SSO, SAML, IAM) and defensive security tooling (EDR, SIEM, CNAPP, ZTNA, etc.)
  • A collaborative approach to problem solving paired with strong written and verbal communication