Harvey
Director of Detection and Response
$280K–$385K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
About the job
Build and lead Harvey’s Detection and Response function, protecting its production platform and corporate environment through threat detection, incident response, and security engineering.
What you'll do
- Build and lead the team, setting its roadmap, staffing plan, and investment priorities.
- Lead incident response and crisis readiness, including investigations, containment, recovery, and executive communication.
- Set technical direction for detection engineering, telemetry, forensic tooling, threat hunting, and response automation.
What they ask for
- Experience building and leading Detection and Response, incident response, or security engineering teams at a technology company with complex production systems.
- Deep incident response experience and sound judgment during serious security events.
- Strong technical foundations in cloud infrastructure, operating systems, networking, identity, and attacker tradecraft, with depth in detection engineering, threat hunting, or digital forensics.
- Experience building detection platforms, investigation tools, or response automation; ability to evaluate architecture and code.
Nice to have
- Experience protecting enterprise SaaS, sensitive customer data, or AI/ML environments.
- Experience investigating insider threats, partnering on privileged-access governance, or leading response under regulatory and public scrutiny.
Pay
$280,000 - $385,000 USD (base salary); $280K – $385K (compensation; pay type not specified)
AI focus
Evaluate AI-assisted investigation with measurable quality and appropriate human oversight; detect threats involving AI-enabled workflows and protect AI/ML environments.
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