Senior Security Engineer (Detect & Respond)
Senior Security Engineer (Detect & Respond)
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Location: Cambridge (hybrid - Couple of days a month)
Right. Let’s skip the part where we tell you how “excited” we are about this role or how we’re a “fast-paced, dynamic” team. You’ve read that 100 times and it never means anything.
What does matter: we're building a world-class Incident Response function. Not “good enough”. Not “it’ll do”. World-class.
We need someone who knows how to handle complex security incidents without turning them into full-blown soap operas. Someone who can stare into the abyss (i.e. production cloud logs) and make sense of the chaos.
We’re not looking for a rockstar or a ninja. Just a seasoned Security Engineer who knows their craft and doesn’t need a babysitter or daily affirmations from HR.
What You’ll Actually Be Doing:
* Triage and investigate security events without crying wolf every five minutes.
* Build tooling and detection infrastructure that doesn’t collapse under scale.
* Write detection rules that reduce noise, not create it.
* Develop runbooks that don’t require a PhD to follow.
* Hunt threats like you mean it. Not because it’s trendy, but because it’s necessary.
* Automate the boring stuff so you can focus on the stuff that matters.
* Be part of an on-call rotation. Yes, that means some late nights. It’s called being in security.
* Talk to engineers like a human. And when needed, talk to stakeholders without making them panic.
What We’re Looking For:
* 8+ years in security engineering. If most of that was spent fixing printer issues or resetting passwords, this isn’t it.
* You understand the offensive side, but choose to play defense.
* You’ve led gnarly investigations. Not “I once reset a token” - actual multi-stakeholder, high-impact ones.
* Deep experience with AWS and how to actually secure it, not just click around in the console.
* You code. You automate. You think in systems.
* You know your way around SIEM/SOAR, but don’t treat them like magic boxes.
* Logs? Malware? Forensics? If that excites you, we’re off to a good start.
* You get MITRE ATT&CK, but also know that real-world attackers don’t always follow the playbook.
* You don’t get defensive when challenged. You get better.
* You can lead, but don’t need to micromanage.
* You're okay being wrong, so long as it helps us all get it right next time.
Why You Might Like It Here:
* You’ll work with smart people who care about doing things properly.
* We give you space to build and ownership to improve.
* Mistakes aren’t career-ending — unless you keep making the same one.
* We’ll treat you like an adult. Because you are one.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Information Technology
* Industries
Computer and Network Security
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