Detection & Response Engineer New Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

Beyond Finance; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision benefits

PTO and holidays

Parental leave

401(k) matching

Job summary

Beyond Finance is seeking a skilled security engineer to build detections and automation for cloud SIEM, SaaS apps, and endpoints. You will own Datadog Cloud SIEM detections, log pipelines, and automation workflows, while aligning coverage with MITRE ATT&CK and reducing noise and costs.

You will automate alert triage, support investigations, and contribute to AI-driven triage enhancements. A hands-on, production-ready mindset with IaC/CI/CD is required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in security operations, detection engineering, or security engineering.
• Proficient in writing scripts and detection logic as code; IaC and CI/CD experience is a plus.
• Hands-on Datadog experience with Cloud SIEM detections and log pipelines.
• Experience with automation orchestration tooling.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience with security telemetry from cloud platforms, SaaS apps, and EDR.

Responsibilities

• Detection engineering: write, tune, and retire Cloud SIEM detections and map coverage to MITRE ATT&CK.
• Logging pipeline: onboard sources and build Datadog log pipelines that parse, normalize, and enrich telemetry.
• Detection-as-code: manage detections in version control with testing and peer review.
• Automation: build workflows for alert enrichment, triage, containment, and notification.
• AI in the SOC: build AI-assisted triage and alert summarization, with a human in the loop.
• Measure coverage, false positives, and automation rates to guide fixes.
• Manage indexes, exclusion filters, and retention tiers to balance cost and coverage.

Skills

Security operations

Detection engineering

Datadog

CI/CD

Automation tooling

MITRE ATT&CK

Threat hunting

Tools

Datadog Cloud SIEM

Log pipelines

Job description

At Beyond Finance, we've made it our mission to help everyday Americans escape the endless cycle of crippling debt and step into a brighter financial future. Through compassionate, individualized care,a culture focused on compliance and ethics, supportive user-centric technology, and customized financial solutions, we've helped over 1 million clients on their path to a brighter future.

While we're proud of what we've already accomplished, we're searching for new collaborators to help us get to the next level! If you're looking to join a forward-thinking, rapidly growing organization with helping people as its number one goal, we want to hear from you.

The Role

You'll build the detections and automation that protect our cloud, SaaS applications, and user workstations. You'll be the team's Datadog expert, owning how security telemetry gets into Datadog Cloud SIEM, how it's filtered, and the detections that run on it. You'll also automate the repetitive work around alerts and support triage and investigations. As we bring automation and AI into security operations, you'll help build and ship the new capabilities.

What You'll Own

• Detection engineering: write, tune, and retire Cloud SIEM detections, and map coverage to MITRE ATT&CK to close gaps.
• Logging pipeline: onboard sources and build Datadog log pipelines that parse, normalize, and enrich security telemetry.
• Detection-as-code: manage detections in version control with testing and peer review.
• Automation: build workflows for alert enrichment, triage, containment, and notification.
• AI in the SOC: build AI-assisted triage and alert summarization, with a human in the loop.
• Measurement: track coverage, false-positive rate, and automation rate to decide what to fix next.
• Filtering and cost: manage indexes, exclusion filters, and retention tiers to cut noise and cost without losing coverage.
• Security operations: support triage, investigations, and incident response, including on-call.

What You Bring

• 3+ years in security operations, detection engineering, or security engineering.
• You write your own scripts and build detection logic as code. Infrastructure as code and CI/CD experience is a plus.
• Deep hands-on Datadog experience, especially Cloud SIEM detection rules and log pipelines.
• Experience with automation orchestration tooling.
• Working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK. Threat hunting or purple teaming experience is a plus.
• Experience with security telemetry from cloud platforms, SaaS applications, and EDR.
• You can take a project from prototype to production with little direction.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate measures success by real threats caught and noise removed, not by the number of detections written. Automating a problem is their first move, and they would rather ship a working detection this week and tune it than wait for a perfect rule. They know Datadog well enough to test every parsing and detection change against real logs before calling it done. They use AI to move faster but verify its output, and when they find a coverage gap or a noisy log source, they fix it instead of filing a ticket.

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The base annual salary range is listed below. This role is eligible for additional incentives, including an annual bonus.

Base Salary Range

$100,000 - $120,000 USD

Why Join Us?

While you make a difference for others, we’ll work to make a difference for you, providing an uplifting, collaborative work environment and benefits that reflect your value to us. For eligible full-time employees, we offer:

• Considerable employer contributions for health, dental, and vision programs
• Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid parental leave
• 401(k) matching program

And finally, our team spirit and culture! We cultivate an environment of community, connection, and belonging across our entire organization.

Beyond Finance does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job positions. No fee will be paid to their parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to Beyond Finance employees or the Beyond Finance HR team. No placement fee will be paid to any third party unless such a request has been made by the Beyond HR team.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.