Runway
Detection & Response Engineer
$240K–$290K
Remote · Remote · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Experience
- Not specified.
About the job
Own and build Runway’s end-to-end security detection and incident response program across its infrastructure, research environment, and products.
What you'll do
- Develop and tune detections as code, lead incident investigations and recovery, and run threat hunts and tabletop exercises.
- Automate triage, response, and evidence collection; monitor AI agents and developer tooling and establish telemetry and controls.
- Partner with engineering and GRC teams on security practices, incident metrics, and compliance evidence.
What they ask for
- Hands-on incident response experience, including triaging alerts, leading investigations, and documenting outcomes.
- Experience building and tuning detections in a modern SIEM.
- Working knowledge of attacker techniques and logs in cloud and Kubernetes environments.
- Programming ability in Python, Typescript, Rust, or another language; familiarity with a major cloud platform and Kubernetes audit logs, RBAC, and workload identity.
Nice to have
- Experience monitoring GPU/HPC infrastructure or research environments with large datasets.
- Experience with AI-agent or LLM-tooling detections and guardrails, cloud forensics, or published open-source detection content.
Pay
$240K – $290K (USD, base salary)
Tools
SIEM, Python, Typescript, Rust, Kubernetes, LLM
AI focus
Automate security triage and response using LLM-based tooling where auditable; monitor AI agents and developer tooling and build related telemetry and controls.
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