Senior Detection and Response Engineer

Anyscale; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 26,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Flexible time off

Parental leave

Mental health support

Job summary

Anyscale is seeking a Senior Detection and Response Engineer to own detection engineering and lead incident response across production and corporate environments. Based in India, you will report to Head of Security and partner with engineering to shape detection and response practices.

In your first year, you will build cloud, endpoint, and runtime telemetry coverage, develop a faithful correlation and alerting pipeline, and maintain incident response runbooks exercised in practice.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in security with focus on detection engineering and incident response.
• Hands-on experience building detections across cloud (AWS/Azure), EDR, and container/runtime telemetry.
• Experience leading end-to-end incident response during live incidents.
• Ability to scale detection and response capabilities and work under pressure.
• Strong communication with engineers and IT to close gaps.

Responsibilities

• Own detection coverage across cloud, endpoint, and runtime telemetry.
• Own centralized correlation and alerting that turns telemetry into detections.
• Own incident response runbooks, escalation paths, and coordination during incidents.
• Drive detection of anomalous activity, including Kubernetes footprint.
• Tune detections to maximize signal and minimize noise, measure DTDR metrics.
• Run incident retrospectives to improve detections and controls.
• Collaborate with infrastructure security and IT to close gaps.

Skills

Security expertise

Incident response

Detection engineering

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

EDR / endpoint telemetry

Kubernetes / runtime telemetry

Tools

SIEM

Detection-as-code

Job description

At Anyscale, we're on a mission to democratize distributed computing and make it accessible to software developers of all skill levels. We’re commercializing Ray, a popular open-source project that's creating an ecosystem of libraries for scalable machine learning. Companies like OpenAI, Uber, Spotify, Instacart, Cruise, and many more, have Ray in their tech stacks to accelerate the progress of AI applications out into the real world.

Proud to be backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition with $250+ million raised to date.

About the Role

Anyscale's need to detect and respond to security events across its production and corporate environments is growing as the company scales. We're looking for a Senior Detection and Response Engineer to own detection engineering and to lead incident response when it counts, coordinating the response and driving it to resolution.

This is a high-ownership role with real room to shape how detection and response works at Anyscale. You will own the detection pipeline, the response runbooks, and incident response, reporting to the Head of Security and partnering with engineering. This role is based in India.

In your first year, success looks like strong detection coverage across our cloud, endpoint, and runtime telemetry, a working correlation and alerting pipeline, and incident response runbooks that have been exercised in practice.

What You’ll Do

• Own and build detection coverage across cloud, endpoint, and runtime telemetry.
• Own a centralized correlation and alerting capability that turns telemetry into actionable detections.
• Own incident response: runbooks, escalation paths, and coordination during an incident, across corporate and production environments.
• Drive detection of anomalous activity across the environments we run, including our Kubernetes footprint.
• Tune detections to keep signal high and noise low, and measure detection and response performance such as mean time to detect and respond.
• Run incident retrospectives and feed lessons back into detections and controls.
• Partner with infrastructure security and IT to close gaps surfaced during response.

What You’ll Bring

• 6+ years in security, with a strong focus on detection engineering and incident response, ideally at a high-growth startup.
• Hands-on experience building detections and correlation across cloud (AWS, Azure), endpoint (EDR), and ideally container and runtime telemetry.
• Experience owning incident response end-to-end, including leading during live incidents.
• Comfort building and scaling a detection and response capability, not only operating an existing one.
• Sound judgment under pressure and clear communication during incidents.
• Fluency working with engineers and IT to close the gaps that response surfaces.

Nice to Have

• Experience with SIEM or detection platforms and detection-as-code approaches.
• Familiarity with runtime security tooling such as Upwind or similar.
• Threat hunting or purple-team experience.
• Background in AI or ML platforms or distributed systems.

Why Anyscale

• We're on a mission to make scalable computing effortless. Ray is the AI Compute Engine at the center of some of the world’s most powerful AI platforms
• Our tech is in production at companies like OpenAI, Uber, Spotify, Instacart, and Cruise
• We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition, with $250M+ raised to date
• Recent partnerships with Azure, CoreWeave, and Google Cloud are putting AI-native compute directly into enterprise environments
• Competitive salary and equity, plus health/dental/vision coverage (many plans up to 99% employer-covered)
• We offer flexible time off, paid parental leave, and mental health support

Anyscale Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates are evaluated without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law.

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