Envoy

Member of Technical Staff, SecOps & Threat Detection Engineer

Envoy
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2 months ago

Base Salary

$265k - $310k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and evolution of Envoy’s threat detection and security operations capabilities.
  • Define detection strategy across cloud infrastructure, applications, and endpoints.
  • Establish and improve SIEM and monitoring architecture, including signal quality, coverage, and scalability.
  • Design and implement detection-as-code standards and practices.
  • Ensure endpoints, services, and identities have consistent monitoring coverage.
  • Own endpoint security monitoring, including SentinelOne integration into centralized detection workflows.
  • Lead automated security control rollouts, including secrets rotation for high-risk systems.
  • Define alerting severity models, escalation paths, and on-call expectations.
  • Lead investigations into complex or ambiguous security signals and establish root cause analysis standards.
  • Partner with engineering teams to improve instrumentation and security signal quality.
  • Define and track MTTD and MTTR metrics and drive measurable improvements.
  • Mentor and guide engineers in detection and security operations.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in Security Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering with a strong security focus.
  • Experience designing or significantly improving security monitoring, detection, or SIEM systems.
  • Strong understanding of cloud environments, ideally AWS, including IAM, networking, and logging at scale.
  • Experience with endpoint detection and response tools such as SentinelOne or similar.
  • Deep experience using logs, events, and telemetry to build high-signal detections.
  • Strong programming or scripting skills in Python, Go, or similar, focused on automation and system design.
  • Strong understanding of attacker behavior and translating threats into detection strategies.
  • Experience defining alerting models and reducing noise while maintaining coverage.
  • Ability to operate in ambiguous environments and establish structure.
  • Strong cross-functional communication and ability to influence engineering and leadership.
  • Pragmatic, outcome-oriented approach focused on reducing risk and improving operational effectiveness.

Benefits

  • On-site role requiring four days per week, Monday through Thursday, at the San Francisco headquarters.

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