[Hiring] Detection & Response Engineer @Runway

Role Description

Open to hiring remote — we also have offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv.

Runway is hiring a Detection & Response Engineer to own how we find and stop attacks against our infrastructure, our research environment and our products.

Securing a company that trains and serves frontier video models is a different problem from securing a typical SaaS product. The environment includes:

• Research compute
• Large training datasets
• A fast-moving build pipeline
• Engineers who work inside AI-assisted tooling every day

You'll join the Security team and build our detection and response program the way an engineer would:

• Detections as code
• Response as automation
• Evidence as something you can query

This is a role with real ownership: you'll own the detection program end to end, from what we log to how quickly we close an incident. You'll report to the head of security, partner with engineers across platform and research, and shape how this function grows from here.

Qualifications

• Hands-on incident response experience: you've triaged live alerts, led investigations and written up what happened afterward
• Experience building and tuning detections in a modern SIEM, ideally managed as code
• Working knowledge of how attackers move through cloud and Kubernetes environments (IAM abuse, container escape, credential theft, supply chain compromise) and what that leaves behind in logs
• Comfort writing Python, Typescript, Rust or another language to automate response work and connect security tools
• Familiarity with at least one major cloud platform and with Kubernetes at the level of audit logs, RBAC and workload identity
• Clear writing. Incident timelines, detection documentation and updates to leadership are all part of the job
• Judgment about what to alert on, what to automate and when to wake someone up

Requirements

• Lead incident response from the first alert through containment and forensics, then write the post-incident review people actually read
• Build automation that takes toil out of triage, including enrichment, correlation, containment actions and evidence collection, and use LLM-based tooling where it holds up under audit
• Monitor AI agents and developer tooling operating inside our environment, and turn that into concrete telemetry and controls
• Partner with platform and research engineers so new systems ship with logging and response playbooks in place on day one
• Run threat hunts and tabletop exercises against the parts of the environment that worry you most, and fix what you find
• Turn incident and detection metrics into evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001 and enterprise customer security reviews, working with our GRC team
• Participate in an on-call rotation for security incidents

Benefits

• Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team.
• Salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry.
• Salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.
• Factors that go into salary determinations include relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process.
• The provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range.

Company Description

Great things come from great teams. We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.

• Universal World Simulator
• GWM-1
• Gen-4.5
• General World Models
• Robotics SDK
• Conversational Real-time Agents
• Runway Studios

We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work:

• Crain's
• InHerSight
• BuiltIn NYC
• INC