Staff Detection & Response Engineer

What You’ll Do

We’re looking for a Staff Detection & Response Engineer to help lead how we detect, respond to, and recover from security incidents across our platform. You’ll own the end-to-end incident lifecycle — from first alert to root cause and lasting fix — so the enterprise marketers who rely on Typeface can trust that their brands, content, and data are protected.

This is your chance to shape how a fast-growing AI company keeps its platform secure — not just by responding to threats, but by building the systems, playbooks, and automation that make every response faster and smarter.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

• Lead the end-to-end response to security incidents – from detection and triage to containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident review
• Investigate alerts and suspicious activity across cloud infrastructure, endpoints, identity systems, and SaaS applications
• Build and maintain incident response playbooks, runbooks, and escalation paths that keep teams aligned under pressure
• Perform log analysis, digital forensics, and threat hunting to uncover root causes and emerging risks
• Automate detection and response workflows to reduce time-to-detect and time-to-resolve
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, IT, Legal and Customer teams to coordinate response and communicate clearly with stakeholders
• Run tabletop exercises and drive continuous improvement of our security posture and readiness
• Mentor and support teammates, helping to shape a strong, blameless, security-first culture

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of experience in incident response, security operations, or digital forensics, with a strong track record of leading investigations end to end
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Hands-on experience with cloud security in AWS, Azure, or GCP, and with SIEM, EDR, and SOAR tools
• Strong understanding of attacker techniques and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and NIST incident handling
• Scripting skills (Python, PowerShell, or Bash) to automate investigation and response tasks
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to stay calm, thrive independently and lead in collaborative teams
• Experience supporting B2B or enterprise SaaS products
• Bonus: Background securing AI or generative AI systems
• Bonus: Industry certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, GCIA, or CISSP

Location

This is a hybrid role based in Palo Alto, CA. We collaborate in-office 3 days a week.

Base Salary

The range for this role is $210,000-$240,000 plus equity. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process.