AI-Driven Detection & Response Engineer

Mixpeek; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Modal is seeking a Detection & Response Engineer to build scalable detection, investigation, and response capabilities across our platform. You will create detections, automation, and tooling that scale with our infrastructure, using AI where it meaningfully improves signal and operational effectiveness.

You’ll collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and security engineers to ensure incidents strengthen the system and make it more resilient over time.

Qualifications

• Experience in detection engineering, incident response, security engineering, or security-focused software engineering.
• Strong software engineering skills with production systems experience.
• Experience investigating security incidents in cloud-native or distributed environments.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Linux, and networking.
• Experience building detections from logs, telemetry, or large-scale event data.
• Strong SQL skills for investigations and detections.
• Interest in applying AI/LLMs to detection, investigation and response.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-fidelity detections for attacks, abuse, and anomalous behavior across infrastructure and production systems.
• Lead or participate in investigations spanning production and cloud environments.
• Build playbooks and automation to reduce investigation time and improve response consistency.
• Drive post-incident improvements to prevent recurring incidents.
• Build internal tooling to improve detection, investigation, and response workflows.

Skills

Detection engineering

Incident response

Security engineering

Software development

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Linux

SQL

AI & LLMs in security

Security communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux

SQL

SIEM

EDR

Job description

Modal is seeking a Detection & Response Engineer to build scalable detection, investigation, and response capabilities across our platform. You will create detections, automation, and tooling that scale with our infrastructure, using AI where it meaningfully improves signal and operational effectiveness.

You’ll collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and security engineers to ensure incidents strengthen the system and make it more resilient over time.