Senior Detection & Response Engineer — End-to-End Security

Flexport; United States; On-site; USD 138,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Flexport is seeking a Senior Detection Engineer to own detections end to end across endpoint, identity, SaaS, and cloud. You’ll define telemetry, ship detection logic, and iterate on coverage with a focus on resilience and automated improvements.

As part of a global security team, you’ll own incident response from triage through remediation, collaborate with a cross‑functional group to close telemetry gaps, and drive continuous improvements in detection quality and automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in detection engineering or incident response.
• Strong coding skills and production-grade tooling.
• Experience with modern SIEM pipelines and telemetry.
• Hands-on in triage and incident handling.

Responsibilities

• Build and tune detections across endpoints, identity, SaaS, and cloud.
• Own incident response from triage to remediation.
• Develop automation to reduce toil and ensure cross-timezone context.

Skills

Python

Go

Detections-as-code

Incident response

CI/CD

Security analytics

Tools

Panther

Elastic

Splunk

Job description

Flexport is seeking a Senior Detection Engineer to own detections end to end across endpoint, identity, SaaS, and cloud. You’ll define telemetry, ship detection logic, and iterate on coverage with a focus on resilience and automated improvements.

As part of a global security team, you’ll own incident response from triage through remediation, collaborate with a cross‑functional group to close telemetry gaps, and drive continuous improvements in detection quality and automation.