Senior Detection and Response Engineer
Faire · San Francisco, CA
Posted 19 days ago · $174,500 to $240,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 19 days Faire's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 71% of Faire's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Faire
- high 43 stale, 1 reposted of 62 open
- Hiring momentum
- 93 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Faire's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Faire.
About this role
As a Senior Detection and Response Engineer at Faire, you'll be responsible for building and shaping the detection and response capabilities within the enterprise environment. This includes monitoring threats across various systems, developing telemetry pipelines, and automating responses to alerts. You'll work collaboratively with multiple teams to improve security controls and ensure effective incident management.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Faire as an employer.
What you need
- Deep hands-on experience in detection engineering, incident response, or security operations
- Depth in corporate attack surfaces such as identity providers and SSO, endpoint and EDR telemetry, email security, SaaS logs, device management signals, and corporate network access
- Strong proficiency in Python and query language such as SQL
- Ability to build and maintain detection-as-code pipelines
- Practical experience with SIEM, EDR, and security analytics platforms
- Investigative depth on endpoints and in cloud and SaaS environments
Nice to have
- Experience as a founding security hire
- Insider threat or data loss detection experience
- Offensive security background against corporate identity and endpoint paths
- Incident commander experience
- Endpoint or cloud forensics depth
What you get
- Competitive pay
- Equity
- Comprehensive benefits designed to support life inside and outside of work
- Hybrid work model with flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year
Worth weighing
- Role is zero-to-one, meaning high autonomy but also ambiguity in initial direction
- Salary range is provided but may change in the future
- Hybrid work model requires in-office attendance three days a week
- No specific mention of professional development opportunities
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Listed by Faire on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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