Staff Detection & Response Engineer

Fanatics Commerce; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,800,000 - 6,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Commerce is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join the Detection & Response team in Hyderabad. You will drive incident response, detection engineering, and SOAR development to scale security operations and protect fan experiences worldwide.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate across teams to translate requirements into data, tooling, and automation, and shape detection use cases for SIEM, EDR, and related security technologies.

Qualifications

• Hands-on incident response experience and threat detection skills.
• Experience designing and improving detection rules and playbooks.
• Proficiency with security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR).

Responsibilities

• Lead detection and response projects with measurable outcomes.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical input on security initiatives.
• Collaborate with teams to translate requirements into tooling and workflows.
• Define use cases for SIEM, SOAR, EDR and related security tech.

Skills

Incident response

Detection engineering

SOAR development

Tools

SIEM

EDR

IR tooling

Job description

Fanatics Commerce is the global leader in licensed sports merchandise, operating a vertically integrated platform that designs, manufactures, and delivers officially licensed apparel, jerseys, headwear, and collectibles for major leagues, teams, and events worldwide. With more than 900 e-commerce sites and a global omnichannel presence across digital, in-venue, and retail, Fanatics Commerce reaches fans in over 180 countries and powers official fan experiences for many of the world's most iconic sports properties.

At Fanatics, we bring our BOLD Leadership Principles to life every day - building championship teams, obsessing over fans, acting with entrepreneurial speed, and delivering with a determined and relentless mindset.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Fanatics is seeking an experienced Staff Security Engineer to join our Detection and Response team, bringing hands‑on expertise in incident response, detection engineering, and SOAR development to help scale our security operations. The ideal candidate combines a defensive practitioner's mindset with deep knowledge of adversarial TTPs, driving continuous improvement across detections, automated workflows, and cross-team security partnerships. The Staff Security Engineer, Detection & Response delivers business and fan impact through BOLD leadership and execution excellence, leveraging data, automation, and AI-enabled insights.

HOW WILL YOU DRIVE IMPACT

Success is measured by the ability to deliver results through BOLD capabilities and measurable outcomes.

Team & Leadership Impact (Build Championship Teams)

Provide technical input and direction on detection and response projects, including tasking, reviewing peer engineers' work, and mentoring team members to elevate the team's overall capability.

Partner with leadership and peers to gather requirements, priorities, and enhancement requests, translating them into data, tooling, and integration requirements that align with organizational goals.

Collaborate closely with engineering teams across the organization to continuously define use cases and requirements for enabling technologies including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, Intrusion Detection Systems, Secure Web Gateway, DNS security, System Hardening, Identity Management, and PKI.

Fan & Customer Impact (Obs