1 month ago
Base Salary
$200k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate continuous security monitoring, triage, investigation, containment, and remediation across diverse networks and infrastructure.
- Build, lead, hire, and mentor teams spanning observability, detection and response, and threat intelligence.
- Establish incident playbooks, on-call and escalation paths, tabletop exercises, and continuous improvements to response quality and speed.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve telemetry reliability, coverage, and actionability across cloud, corporate, and production environments.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure to embed detection and response capabilities into systems by design.
- Develop a security program capable of addressing sophisticated adversaries and frontier security-operations problems.
Requirements
- 10+ years of cybersecurity experience with deep expertise in detection engineering, incident response, and security operations.
- Deep experience building and leading detection and response, instrumentation/observability, and threat intelligence teams.
- Demonstrated leadership and sustained improvement of security programs, processes, and people.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, composure under pressure, and experience leading complex security incidents involving many stakeholders.
- Deep expertise in modern observability stacks, including SIEM, data lakes, EDR, cloud telemetry, logging, and detection primitives.
- Understanding of modern adversary tradecraft and experience translating it into practical detection strategies and response actions.
- Strong integrity, mission orientation, and passion for detecting and responding to adversaries in complex, fast-paced environments.
Benefits
- Opportunity to shape the success of Serval’s product and company.
- Opportunity to build a new AI product offering with support from an experienced team and investors.
- Growth opportunities within a fast-growing company.
- Culture emphasizing innovation, ownership, accountability, and fun.
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About Serval
Serval builds an AI-native ITSM and automation platform that unifies help desk, access management, and workflow orchestration for enterprises. Its agent-based software turns natural-language requests into end-to-end actions across systems, spanning IT, HR, Finance, Security, Legal, and Engineering; sold as a cloud platform. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and used by organizations such as Fox, Notion, Vercel, Perplexity, and Brex.