Senior Security Engineer - Detection & Response

Klaviyo; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Sign-on bonus

Health and wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Klaviyo is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join the Detection & Response Team. This role involves building detections, triaging alerts, leading investigations, and automating security workflows across enterprise, cloud, and product environments.

You will develop AI-first security systems, perform threat hunts, and collaborate with Threat Intelligence to counter sophisticated threats. Strong communication and on-call readiness are required, with up to 10% travel.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on security experience in modern cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and deploy high-fidelity rule-based and anomaly-based detections-as-code.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat hunting

Incident response

Digital forensics

Detections-as-code

Python

Go

SQL

CI/CD automation

Git/GitHub

Tools

Git/GitHub

CI/CD

Python

Go

SQL

SIEM

Data lake

Job description

At Klaviyo, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives each Klaviyos brings to our workplace each and every day. We believe everyone deserves a fair shot at success and appreciate the experiences each person brings beyond the traditional job requirements. If you're a close but not exact match with the description, we hope you'll still consider applying. Want to learn more about life at Klaviyo? Visit klaviyo.com/careers to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny. Klaviyo is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to add to our growing Detection & Response Team. This is an engineering role that spans the full detection and response lifecycle - leveraging software development practices to build detections, triaging alerts, lead investigations, respond to incidents, perform threat hunting, and build the tooling that keeps us from doing the same work twice. As a member of the team, you will have the opportunity to work on complex large-scale security challenges across Klaviyo's enterprise, cloud, and product environments, and shape how an engineering-first D&R function uses automation and AI in production, at scale, alongside talented and ambitious colleagues spanning multiple regions and timezones.

How you will make a difference

• Leverage engineering practices to develop, test, and deploy high-fidelity rule-based and anomaly-based detections-as-code
• Detect and respond to cyber threats using security data lake, SIEM, and cloud platforms
• Respond to alerts, cyber threats, and drive end-to-end incident response investigations
• Perform digital forensic investigations to include collection and analysis of evidence
• Automate and codify detection and response workflows and processes
• Build security tooling to drive automation across D&R lifecycle
• Improve and maintain detection and response pipelines and underlying systems
• Work with our Threat Intelligence team to identify and respond to sophisticated threats
• Develop AI-first security systems to automate detection and response operations
• Conduct threat hunts across corporate, cloud and product environments
• Support data engineering workflows for core security data lake and SIEM platforms
• Be an active member of D&R on-call rotations
• Coach and mentor security engineers within the detection & response team

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• 5+ years of hands-on security experience in modern cloud environments
• Experience in triaging and responding to cyber threats
• Experience in large-scale log analysis, incident response and/or digital forensics
• Experience with centralized security data lakes and SIEM solutions
• Hands-on experience in writing detections-as-code
• Solid data querying skills (e.g. SQL, Splunk)
• Familiarity with large-scale data pipelines and data engineering techniques
• Proficient in programming languages to automate / build (e.g., Python, Go or similar)
• Proven experience with git/GitHub and CI/CD automations
• Familiarity with tactics, techniques, and procedures used by threat actors
• Experience being part of detection and response or incident response on-call
• Engineering-first and AI-first approach for all work performed
• Strong passion for continuous learning and staying updated on evolving technology
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Team player with a strong, self-managing work ethic

Massachusetts Applicants

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Base Pay Range For US Locations

$141,600-$212,400 USD

• In addition to base salary, our total compensation package may include participation in the company's annual cash bonus plan, variable compensation (OTE) for sales and customer success roles, equity, sign-on payments, and a comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility. Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary/OTE range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

This role may require up to 10% travel for purposes such as new hire onboarding, client or partner work if applicable, team meetings, and industry events. Travel is coordinated in advance.

Get to Know Klaviyo

We empower creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable like never before. We see limitless potential for the technology we're developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond. To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creators - ambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star: delighting our customers. If you're ready to do the best work of your career, where you'll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope you'll join us.

AI fluency at Klaviyo includes responsible use of AI (including privacy, security, bias awareness, and human-in-the-loop). We provide accommodations as needed.

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