LangChain

Security Engineer - Detection & Response

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2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the detection lifecycle by translating threat models, incidents, and attacker behavior into telemetry requirements and detections-as-code.
  • Design and operate security telemetry pipelines across GCP/AWS, Kubernetes, and the LangSmith/LangGraph control plane.
  • Build investigation and threat-hunting tools for proactive hunting, evidence collection, incident scoping, and containment.
  • Develop internal AI agents and automation for alert triage, finding enrichment, evidence gathering, and routine security operations with human-in-the-loop controls.
  • Lead security incident response, participate in the incident on-call rotation, and drive postmortems and remediation.
  • Partner with Product Security to convert threat models and vulnerability findings into production monitoring and secure-design improvements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of security engineering experience with meaningful detection engineering, security operations, or incident response experience.
  • Strong production software engineering skills in Python or Go; TypeScript experience is a plus.
  • Experience with GCP or AWS logging, Kubernetes audit and runtime telemetry, workload identity, and actionable detection development.
  • Ability to model attacker behavior, perform threat hunting, test detection coverage, and distinguish useful signals from noise.
  • Hands-on incident response experience, including on-call participation, incident leadership, and postmortems.
  • Experience building reliable automation or developer-facing systems with APIs, workflows, instrumentation, quality evaluation, and production operation.
  • Ability to identify users and requirements, prioritize high-leverage problems, define success, and ship iteratively.
  • Experience building or operating AI agents for security workflows is preferred.
  • Experience using AI tooling for security investigations and engineering, understanding AI threats and adversarial testing, or securing LLM and agent workloads is preferred.
  • Exposure to SOC 2 or ISO 27001 monitoring and evidence automation is preferred.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Helm is preferred.
  • Experience securing SaaS and self-hosted or air-gapped deployments is preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible vacation.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Meals on in-office days in the US.
  • Role is located in San Francisco or NYC and includes participation in an incident on-call rotation.
LangChain

About LangChain

201-500 employees

LangChain builds open-source frameworks and a commercial platform for developing, evaluating, deploying, and operating LLM-powered agents and applications. Its LangSmith suite provides observability, testing, deployment, and governance for enterprise AI workloads; customers include Nvidia, LinkedIn, Workday, and Bridgewater. Privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, the company was founded in 2022.

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