Senior Detection & Response Engineer — End-to-End

Flexport; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Flexible time off

Job summary

Flexport is hiring a Detection Engineer to own detections end-to-end across endpoint, identity, SaaS, and cloud. You will write, tune, and ship detections using CI/CD practices with a follow-the-sun pager rotation. You’ll define telemetry, hunt threats, and drive remediation with cross-functional teams.

We value strong programming skills (Python/Go), hands-on SIEM experience, and practical incident response leadership. This role offers meaningful impact in a fast-growing security organization.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of hands-on experience in detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, or similar).
• Experience with a modern SIEM and contributing detection logic to production.
• Practical incident response leadership and real-world containment experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and tune detections across endpoint, identity, SaaS, and cloud.
• Own incident response: triage, contain, remediate, and write retrospectives.
• Build automation to remove toil and coordinate across time zones.
• Define telemetry requirements for new systems before they ship.
• Threat hunt proactively across the estate and expand coverage.

Skills

Detection engineering

Incident response

Threat hunting

Python/Go

SIEM experience

Cloud-native telemetry

Kubernetes telemetry

Tools

Panther

Elastic

Splunk

Job description

Flexport is hiring a Detection Engineer to own detections end-to-end across endpoint, identity, SaaS, and cloud. You will write, tune, and ship detections using CI/CD practices with a follow-the-sun pager rotation. You’ll define telemetry, hunt threats, and drive remediation with cross-functional teams.

We value strong programming skills (Python/Go), hands-on SIEM experience, and practical incident response leadership. This role offers meaningful impact in a fast-growing security organization.