Manager, Detection Engineering – Rapid Response Team
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Detection engineering manager leading SentinelOne’s Rapid Response Team for AI-native cybersecurity. Developing threat detections, managing senior engineers, and improving rapid-response operations.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the Rapid Response Team responsible for fast, reliable detection coverage across emerging and actively exploited threats, critical vulnerabilities, supply chain attacks, and detection gaps
- Personally develop, review, and drive detections to merge and release, especially during threat surges and for the hardest threats
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of five or more Senior to Staff detection engineers, owning hiring, development, performance, and day-to-day operations
- Own threat triage and prioritization, SLO adherence, incident coordination, and workload balancing across concurrent threats
- Protect team focus and capacity while ensuring high-priority work meets target turnaround times
- Build cross-functional partnerships and represent the team in shared forums
- Own and evolve the team roadmap, process documentation, service charter, and metrics
- Champion detection automation and tooling
- Communicate the team's work, coverage, and outcomes to stakeholders, partner teams, and detection leadership
Requirements:
- Proven experience leading or mentoring a detection engineering, threat detection, or SOC-adjacent team
- Direct people management experience is ideal; strong technical leads ready to move into management will also be considered
- Current, hands-on detection engineering expertise, including writing, reviewing, and tuning detection rules
- Firm grasp of the end-to-end detection lifecycle and false negative and false positive feedback loops
- Strong hands-on experience with GitHub and detection-as-code pipelines, including pull requests, code review, and merge-to-release workflows
- Hands-on experience developing detections across more than one engine, including endpoint behavioral, signature-based such as YARA, and cloud or SIEM-based engines across multiple data sources, or ability to ramp quickly across engines
- Experience developing detections at a product or vendor company serving many customers and industries
- Strong understanding of adversary behavior, MITRE ATT&CK, ransomware, and in-the-wild campaigns
- Track record in fast-moving, SLO-driven environments with competing priorities
- Flexibility to lead emerging threat responses outside a traditional schedule
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience establishing or maturing team processes, metrics, and documentation
- Familiarity with intake and triage workflows and detection automation tooling is a strong plus
Benefits:
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Flexible time off
- Paid company holidays and paid sick time
- Gender-neutral parental leave
- Grandparent leave
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Life and disability insurance
- Health and dependent care FSA
- Voluntary benefits (hospital, accident, critical illness)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- ARAG pre-paid legal
- Nationwide pet insurance
- Cancer Care program
- Global business travel medical insurance
- Home office allowance
- Mobile phone reimbursement
- Wellness coach
- Wellness/gym reimbursement
- Fertility coverage
- Adoption & surrogacy reimbursement
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