Staff Engineer, Detection and Response

The role You’ll lead detection and response (D&R) strategy for Apollo’s Security team, and you’ll deliver it hands-on. You’ll build detection systems, response automations and investigation tools in weeks, not months. You’ll lead our most complex incidents. You’ll also set the standards and architecture that let the team catch and contain real threats without depending on any one person.

Strategy and influence

• Own D&R strategy and turn it into multi-quarter initiatives tied to Security KRs. Report progress and risks to leadership in business terms.
• Work with Engineering, Infrastructure and IT so logging, telemetry and response readiness are planned into their roadmaps early.
• Set D&R standards: detections and response as code, review practices, playbook quality, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Mentor engineers to own detections and lead incidents, and help raise the hiring bar.

Detection engineering and observability

• Own detection architecture and the multi-quarter coverage plan: log sources, enrichment, correlation, alert routing, and cost at scale.
• Own security observability: telemetry onboarding, signal quality, threat intel inputs and alert tuning.
• Run the detection lifecycle: intake and prioritization, unit tests, replay against historical data, attack simulation, and regular reviews of coverage gaps, latency, false positives and MTTD.
• Stay hands-on: ship MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detections, threat hunts and automations in Panther and Python via Git and CI/CD.
• Own and improve the IR plan: severity model, roles, escalation, communications, on-call and playbooks for our top scenarios.
• Build IR readiness: tabletop exercises with Engineering, Legal, Fraud and leadership, plus response automation and forensic readiness.
• Measure IR quality (MTTA/MTTR by severity, repeat incidents, action closure) and feed every incident’s lessons back into detections, automation and process.
• Lead high-severity incidents as senior technical lead or incident commander across cloud, SaaS and corporate systems.

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