Staff Security Engineer - Detection and Response (AI)

Location: San Ramon, California or Reno, Nevada, United States

Salary: $205,000–$256,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is an industry cloud platform building a modern public-cloud solution for the investment management industry.

What you will do

• Shape the Detections and Response Team roadmap using business priorities and threat models.
• Identify detection requirements during the design of new features and infrastructure and close classes of vulnerabilities through variant analysis.
• Architect AI-powered detection, triage, and investigation pipelines that improve accuracy and reduce false positives.
• Design scalable SIEM, SOAR, ingestion, enrichment, and alerting frameworks across AWS and the broader technical environment.
• Own incident response architecture, lead complex high-impact events, and drive findings toward systemic remediation.
• Set technical direction for security codebases and infrastructure, establish responsible AI guardrails, influence security strategy, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in detection, security operations, incident response, or software engineering, including leadership of cross-functional technical initiatives.
• Advanced proficiency in Python or another high-level language such as Kotlin or TypeScript.
• Ability to build and rigorously validate AI/LLM-driven detection, triage, and investigation workflows.
• Expertise authoring detections mapped to attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures, including MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience building and operating detection-as-code and alerting pipelines, with strong AWS knowledge across CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, GuardDuty, CloudWatch, Athena, IAM analysis, Lambda, and ECS/EKS.
• Fluency with infrastructure-as-code, such as Terraform, CI/CD practices, and clear written and verbal communication.

Nice to have

• Experience leading high-impact incidents as a technical lead or incident commander.
• Hands-on design of AI agents or LLM-based security operations automation.
• Open-source detection or security tooling contributions or published security research.

Culture & Benefits

• People-first culture centered on ownership, transparency, action, growth, and collaboration.
• Career advancement opportunities and the ability to influence the product.
• Company stock plan participation, subject to the applicable agreement.
• Unlimited vacation, educational and wellness reimbursements, and $0-cost employee insurance plans.