Lambda
Senior Manager, Detection and Response
Bellevue Office +2 · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Location
- Bellevue Office
San Jose Office (First St)
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) - Experience
- 10+ years of security experience, including 5+ years leading technical teams.
About the job
Leads Lambda’s Detection & Response team to build and scale proactive security operations, incident response, threat hunting, and automation across its cloud infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Build and manage the team, including its processes, culture, staffing, and sustainable 24/7 coverage.
- Set detection and response strategy, threat-hunting frameworks, incident procedures, and security automation capabilities.
- Partner across engineering and leadership on security improvements, incident communications, and post-incident reviews.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of security experience and 5+ years leading technical teams.
- Experience building security programs from the ground up, including processes, technical frameworks, and cross-functional partnerships.
- Ability to build automation-first security programs and understanding of cloud infrastructure security.
- Strong security-response judgment, executive communication, and ability to operate in high-ambiguity environments.
Nice to have
- Experience building Detection & Response programs at AI/ML companies or using AI/ML for security operations automation.
- Experience scaling security during hypergrowth, making security-tooling build-versus-buy decisions, or supporting compliance audits.
Tools
LLMs, AI/ML, SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP
AI focus
Pioneer AI-powered security solutions, including AI-powered threat hunting, automated security report generation, and intelligent vulnerability prioritization.
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