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Staff Detection & Response Engineer

Kikoff · San Francisco

Posted 17 days ago

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This role has been open
17 days
Kikoff's roles stay open a median of 69 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
9% of Kikoff's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Kikoff
high
37 stale, 0 reposted of 54 open
Hiring momentum
73 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-24

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About this role

As a Staff Detection & Response Engineer at Kikoff, you will lead the detection and response strategy for a fintech company, focusing on building and maintaining detection capabilities across various environments. Your responsibilities include owning the detection roadmap, designing detection coverage, managing incident response processes, and automating responses where appropriate. This role requires a strong technical background in security, particularly in cloud-native environments, and offers the opportunity for significant ownership and impact.

Our read on this posting3.2out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
5/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • 6+ years in security with meaningful detection engineering and incident response experience in cloud-native environments (AWS strongly preferred)
  • Experience writing detections such as SIEM rules or detection-as-code pipelines
  • Hands-on incident response experience leading real incidents
  • Strong command of Cloud Native logging and detection surfaces
  • Experience with EDR at fleet scale and identity-based detection
  • Fluency in at least one programming language for automation (Python, Go, Ruby, or similar)

Nice to have

  • Experience standing up a detection program from scratch or near-scratch
  • Detections for AI/LLM and agentic system abuse
  • Experience with insider threat and unauthorized access investigations
  • Background in consumer fintech or financial services

Worth weighing

  • No specific benefits or perks listed in the posting
  • The role requires significant ownership and technical expertise, which may lead to high expectations
  • The position involves working in a regulated fintech environment, which may have unique challenges

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Listed by Kikoff on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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