Sentry
Security Engineer, Detection & Response
$150K–$200K
San Francisco, California · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 26, 2026
- Experience
- 2–5 years of industry experience in a detection and response, corporate security, or generalist security engineering role.
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, equivalent training, or professional experience.
About the job
Build and operate security detection, response, and access-management systems; investigate incidents and implement preventative controls across Sentry’s corporate and production environments.
What you'll do
- Maintain and improve detection engineering systems, including agentic triage and response automation.
- Investigate security events and contribute to incident response and emerging-threat handling.
- Operate identity and access management systems and deploy preventative security controls.
What they ask for
- 2–5 years of industry experience in detection and response, corporate security, or generalist security engineering.
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, equivalent training, or professional experience.
- Hands-on experience with several listed security areas, such as alert triage, detection engineering, investigations, IAM, or endpoint detection and response tooling.
- Programming experience in at least one language; familiarity with distributed cloud technology and corporate and defensive security tooling.
Nice to have
- Python is preferred.
Pay
$150,000 to $200,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, AWS, CICD, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
AI focus
Build agentic alert-triage and security-response automation; address security challenges from agentic product features and AI-assisted engineering practices.
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