[Hiring] Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response @Hackerone
Apr 08, 2025 - Hackerone is hiring a remote Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response. 💸 Salary: £88k – £110k • offers equity. 📍Location: UK.
Role Description
As a Senior Detection & Response Security Engineer, you will play a critical role in strengthening HackerOne’s security posture. You’ll design and implement cutting-edge detection strategies, automate response workflows, and lead incident response efforts to safeguard our systems and data.
This role requires a strategic thinker who thrives in a dynamic cloud-based environment. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, IT, Support, and other teams to build scalable security solutions that mitigate threats and drive operational excellence.
At HackerOne, we embrace a Flexible Work approach, enabling our team members to work remotely while maintaining productivity and collaboration. We are seeking candidates located in London and the surrounding metropolitan areas, to facilitate occasional in-person interactions as needed.
What You Will Do:
- Familiarize yourself with our processes and organization.
- Learn about our infrastructure and existing security tooling.
- Understand our detection and response capabilities and develop recommendations to enhance them.
- Lead meaningful projects to implement your ideas and improve HackerOne's detection and response capabilities by:
- Evaluating potential detection techniques and tools to create useful, actionable, high signal alerts.
- Developing automation and improving existing tooling and alerting to minimize alert fatigue and maximize effective incident response.
- Collaborating closely with IT, Engineering, Support, and other teams across the company.
- Managing security incidents, from assembling the response team to organizing and leading blameless retrospectives.
- Developing clear response processes for various types of incidents and playbooks for alerts generated by our tools.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in detection and response related security roles
- Experience working with AWS (or similar cloud environment), Linux, OSX, SentinelOne (or other similar endpoint security software)
- Experience working with DataDog (or other similar log analysis and querying software)
- Familiarity with modern programming languages such as Ruby, Python, Rust, JavaScript, and similar
- Proficient in responding to alerts and incidents within a cloud-based SAAS environment
- Adaptable thinker, able to creatively solve old problems in new ways and new problems in old ways
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with other teams
- Understands ways to catch wily threat actors
- Possesses the fine art of crafting useful, actionable, high signal alerts
- Proficiency in automating detection and response processes through API calls, webhook creation, etc.
- Willingness and ability to participate in the response to critical incidents as needed
Requirements
- AWS
- Containerization and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS)
Benefits
- Health (medical, vision, dental), life, and disability insurance*
- Equity stock options
- Retirement plans
- Paid public holidays and unlimited PTO
- Paid maternity and parental leave
- Leaves of absence (including caregiver leave and leave under CO's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible Work Stipend
*Eligibility may differ by country
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Salary
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£88k – £110k • offers equity
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Remote
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UK
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Apr 08, 2025
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