Sentry

Security Engineer, Detection & Response

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5 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$155k - $400k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Maintain, improve, and own detection engineering systems and Sentry’s detection stack.
  • Build and operate agentic triage, security response, and orchestration automation.
  • Perform investigations and contribute to security incident response across corporate and production environments.
  • Maintain and operate identity and access management systems, including user access reviews.
  • Conduct alert triage, detection tuning and writing, phishing response, and endpoint detection and response operations.
  • Research, identify, and respond to emerging threats affecting Sentry, its customers, cloud environment, and agentic product capabilities.
  • Partner cross-functionally to implement preventative controls, defense-in-depth practices, and high-signal alerting.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of industry experience in detection and response, corporate security, or generalist security engineering.
  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field, equivalent training, or professional experience.
  • Hands-on experience with alert triage, detection tuning and writing, detection-as-code, security log ingestion, investigations, incident response, IAM, phishing response, user access reviews, or endpoint detection and response tooling.
  • Programming experience in at least one language, with Python preferred, and comfort using agentic development workflows.
  • Familiarity with distributed cloud technology such as AWS, CI/CD, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, or Terraform.
  • Experience with corporate security technologies such as SSO, SAML, and IAM, and defensive security tooling such as EDR, SIEM, CNAPP, or ZTNA.
  • Strong written and verbal communication and a collaborative approach to problem solving.
  • Interest in automation, cross-functional technical collaboration, ownership, and learning across security domains.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $155,000 to $400,000 USD.
  • Eligibility for employee benefit plans and programs applicable to the position, including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage.
  • Small, high-trust team environment with autonomy, mentorship, and opportunities to work across multiple security domains.
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