Block
Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response
$185K–$327K
Bay Area, CA, United States of America +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Location
- Bay Area, CA, United States of America
US - CA - Bay Area - Remote - Experience
- 6+ years of hands-on incident response and digital forensics experience.
About the job
Leads complex security incident investigations and response across Block’s products and systems, while building tools and workflows to improve response.
What you'll do
- Command incidents from assessment through containment, recovery, and closure; establish scope, impact, and timelines.
- Coordinate remediation and communications across teams, and lead post-incident reviews.
- Build code, queries, automation, and processes to improve investigations, detections, and response; mentor responders and join the on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of hands-on incident response and digital forensics experience.
- Experience commanding major security incidents involving multiple teams and competing priorities.
- Strong attacker-behavior knowledge and depth in several security areas, plus SQL/database, log-analysis, and programming or scripting skills.
- Established AI-assisted workflow and active development of AI-based systems and processes for incident coordination and case management.
Pay
$217,800 — $326,800 USD (base salary); $207,000 — $310,400 USD (base salary); $196,100 — $294,100 USD (base salary); $185,200 — $277,800 USD (base salary)
Tools
SQL, Python
AI focus
Use AI-assisted workflows and develop AI-based systems and processes to improve incident coordination and case management; build investigative tools that work with and without AI.
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