LangChain
Security Engineer - Detection & Response
$185K–$250K
San Francisco, CA +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- 5+ years in security engineering.
About the job
Build and operate detection, investigation, and incident-response systems to protect LangChain’s production platform, cloud infrastructure, and agent workloads.
What you'll do
- Develop and validate detections, telemetry pipelines, investigation tools, and threat-hunting workflows.
- Build AI agents and automation for security operations with human-in-the-loop controls and evaluations.
- Respond to incidents, participate in on-call, and turn findings into durable security improvements.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in security engineering, including meaningful detection engineering, security operations, or incident response experience.
- Strong production software engineering skills in Python or Go.
- Experience with GCP or AWS logging, Kubernetes audit and runtime telemetry, and actionable detections.
- Hands-on incident response, including on-call participation, leading incidents, and writing postmortems.
Nice to have
- Experience building or operating AI agents for security workflows.
- Experience with Terraform or Helm.
Pay
$185,000- $250,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, TypeScript, GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm
AI focus
Build internal AI agents and automation to triage alerts, enrich findings, gather evidence, and scope incidents; design human-in-the-loop controls and evaluations.
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