Security Engineer, Detection & Response

The role

You will build and contribute to systems that detect malicious activity and implement new controls to prevent incidents. You will work across detection and response and corporate security domains.

What you will do

• Maintain, improve, and own detection engineering systems.
• Perform investigations and contribute to security incident response.
• Contribute to, maintain, and operate identity and access management systems.
• Research, identify, and respond to emerging threats relevant to Sentry.
• Partner with teams across the company to prevent and respond to security incidents.

Required qualifications

• 2-5 years of industry experience in a detection and response, corporate security, or generalist security engineering role
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, equivalent training, or professional experience
• Hands-on experience with alert triage, detection tuning and writing, detection-as-code, security log ingestion, investigations and security incident response, identity and access management (IAM), phi
• Experienced and comfortable programming in at least one language
• Comfortable using agentic development workflows
• Familiarity with operating distributed cloud technology (AWS, CICD, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, etc.)
• Experience with corporate (SSO, SAML, IAM) and defensive security tooling (EDR, SIEM, CNAPP, ZTNA, etc.)
• A collaborative approach to problem solving paired with strong written and verbal communication

Nice to have

• Python preferred

Benefits

• Incentive compensation
• Equity grants
• Paid time off
• Group health insurance coverage

About the company

Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice. It is an application monitoring standard trusted by 200,000+ organizations.