Security Engineer - Incident Detection and Response

I m supporting a CISO in New York City who s looking to hire an early-career Incident Detection & Response professional.

The team is targeting someone with 2 5 years of experience, either from a SOC / IDR environment at a larger organisation, or a software engineer from a Big Tech background who s motivated to move into security.

They ve had strong success hiring from companies like Microsoft, Google, Meta etc, and are open to candidates who ve developed in similar high-bar engineering environments.

This is not a senior role, but a great opportunity for someone early in their cyber career to learn and grow under an experienced security leadership team.

What You ll Be Doing

On a day-to-day basis, you ll be involved in:

• Reviewing and triaging security alerts, assessing potential impact and risk to the business
• Supporting the investigation and resolution of security incidents, including forensic analysis where required
• Helping to strengthen detection, monitoring, and threat-hunting capabilities
• Acting as a point of contact for other teams when security incidents arise
• Creating and refining incident response processes, documentation, and runbooks
• Improving existing security tooling and contributing to the development of new tools to enhance detection and response
• Conducting security assessments of third-party vendors and services

What We re Looking For

• 2 5 years of relevant experience; a degree in computer science or a related technical field is preferred
• A solid understanding of security fundamentals and an appreciation for how security issues show up in real-world environments
• Experience in incident response, SOC, or digital forensics is beneficial but not essential
• A naturally curious mindset, someone who enjoys digging into data, spotting patterns, and thinking creatively about potential threats
• Strong computer science fundamentals, a bias towards automation, and good software engineering practices
• Hands-on experience with at least one general-purpose programming language; Python is a plus
• Strong communication and organisational skills, with the ability to work closely with engineering and business teams

This is an opportunity to join one of the most elite teams in the world where curiosity and excellent problem solving is the key to success.

$170k-$200k base salary + bonus and outstanding benefits

3 days onsite in NYC