Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Job overview

The Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response is based onsite in San Francisco, CA; the feed lists Chicago, IL, while the posting identifies San Francisco as the work location. Compensation is not specified for Illinois; the posting lists location-specific salary ranges for California, Washington, Colorado, and New York City. Flexport’s mission is to make global commerce easy and accessible. The engineer owns security detections end to end, leads incident response, and builds automation and telemetry practices that improve visibility and reduce investigation toil. The role helps protect the systems and operations that support global trade.

What you'll do

• Build and tune detections across endpoint, identity, SaaS, and cloud
• measure detection coverage, precision, and time-to-detect
• triage, contain, and remediate incidents and write retrospectives
• automate investigation tasks
• define telemetry requirements for new systems
• proactively threat hunt and convert findings into detections or documented coverage.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior security engineer

detection & response

security engineering

incident response

threat hunting

detection engineering

flexport

san francisco ca

python or go

siem

cloud security

global trade

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Bonus, equity, medical, dental, and flexible time off.

Why this role

The posting describes a global follow-the-sun pager rotation so team members are not paged at 3 a.m. local time; the role is based in San Francisco, with relocation support available for the right candidate.

About the employer

Flexport is hiring for this role. Industry: Freight Transportation Arrangement. Sector: 48.