Threat Detection & Incident Response Engineer

Sentry; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Sentry is seeking a Security Engineer to help guard customers, code, and cloud infrastructure. You will contribute to detection engineering, incident response, and IAM while building scalable controls and automation in a fast-moving developer environment.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to detect threats, mentor colleagues, and improve our security posture as we grow, with ownership and autonomy on high-trust projects.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on in alert triage and detection tuning/writing.
• Experience with detection-as-code and security log ingestion.
• Knowledge of IAM and corporate security practices.
• Experience with incident response and investigations.
• Proficient in Python; agentic development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, improve, and own detection engineering systems and automation.
• Perform investigations and contribute to security incident response.
• Contribute to identity and access management and related tooling.

Skills

Detection & Response

Security Engineering

Python

Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)

IAM / Identity Access Management

Incident Response

Education

Bachelor's in CS or related field

Tools

EDR

SIEM

CNAPP

ZTNA

Kubernetes

Docker

SAML

SSO

Job description

Sentry is seeking a Security Engineer to help guard customers, code, and cloud infrastructure. You will contribute to detection engineering, incident response, and IAM while building scalable controls and automation in a fast-moving developer environment.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to detect threats, mentor colleagues, and improve our security posture as we grow, with ownership and autonomy on high-trust projects.