Senior Detection and Response Engineer
San Francisco
Security and Trust /
Full-Time /
On-site
About Kandji
Kandji is the Apple Device Management and Security Platform. Kandji empowers companies to manage and secure Apple devices in the enterprise and at scale. By centrally securing and managing Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV devices, IT and InfoSec teams can save countless hours of manual, repetitive work with features like one-click compliance templates and more than 150 pre-built automations, apps, and workflows.
Device Harmony is our vision for tearing down the wall between IT and InfoSec to keep every Apple user secure and productive, using connected intelligence and automation. By choosing a career with Kandji, you will play an integral role in contributing to making our vision a reality. Backed by world-class investors such as Tiger Global, Greycroft, B Capital Group, Okta Ventures, the Spruce House Partnership, and First Round Capital, Kandji has raised over $100+M in capital to date.
Trusted by industry leaders, Kandji’s rapidly growing customer base includes companies like Ramp, Notion, Netskope, Noom, Turo, Groupon, VoxMedia, and more.
Recognized for its award-winning products, Kandji was recently named the #1 fastest-growing app in Okta’s 2023 Businesses at Work Report and a G2 Best Software 2023 Award Winner for Fastest Growing Products!
The Opportunity
Kandji is looking for a Senior Detection & Response Engineer to add to our growing security team. This is a hands-on technical role that involves solving complex security problems, threat detection, security orchestration and automation, incident response and developing new tools to take the Detection & Response Program to the next level. As a Senior Detection & Response Engineer you will have the opportunity to provide detection and response thought leadership, take ownership of end-to-end detection development lifecycle, and execute on core detection and response engineering efforts
How you will make a difference day to day
- Develop, test, and deploy high fidelity detections using signatures, heuristics and models
- Establish telemetry data across Kandji cloud environment, platforms, and technologies
- Detect and respond to cyber threats and incidents using tools such as a SIEM, IDS, EDR, Firewalls and modern cloud platforms
- Deploy and optimize detection and response technologies (e.g., SIEM, IDS/IPS, EDR)Automate and codify detection and response processes and playbooks
- Conduct ad-hoc threat hunts in support of SecOps, detection, automations or tools
- Build tools, integrations and automations for SecOps and threat detection platforms
- Collaborate across functional teams (Product, Engineering, IT) to understand and protect all aspects of Kandji cyber footprint
Minimum Qualifications
- 4+ years of hands-on security operations experience in the modern cloud environments
- Hands-on experience with SIEM tooling and centralized logging (e.g. Rapid7, ELK, Splunk)
- Experience in:
- Writing and deploying threat-intelligence driven detections (endpoint, network, cloud, container)
- Securing cloud common cloud environments (AWS)
- Leveraging scripting languages for automation and integration (Bash, Python)
- Building and configuring detection-as-code frameworks
- Subject matter expert incident response lifecycle and implementation
- Experience with using and configuring Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) tooling
- Strong fundamentals of Linux and Mac operating systems
- The desire to find evil.
- Required to work on-site 3 days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). Managers may require additional on-site days.
These requirements are for the strongest, ideal candidate. Even if you do not outperform every bullet point, Kandji encourages you to apply. We promote a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture and recognize that even the strongest candidates won’t have all desired experiences and qualifications.
Benefits & Perks
• Competitive salary
• 100% individual and dependent medical + dental + vision coverage
• 401(k) with a 4% company match
• 20 days PTO
• Health and wellness days
• Kandji Wellness Week Off July 1 - July 5, 2024
• Equity for full-time employees
• Up to 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents
• Paid Family and Medical Leave
• Modern Health - Mental Health Benefits - Individual and Dependents
• Fertility Benefits
• Working Advantage Employee Discounts
• Gym Membership
• Lunch 5 Days/Week
• Exciting opportunities for career growth
• An outstanding, inclusive culture
We are excited to be serving a significant need for a fast-growing market, and are proud of the high-performing team we have brought together so far. If you’re someone who wants to engage in new, exciting projects that will challenge your skills in the best way possible, we would love to connect with you.
At Kandji we believe in fostering an inclusive environment in which employees feel encouraged to share their unique perspectives, leverage their strengths, and act authentically. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, and welcome those from all backgrounds and varying experiences.
Kandji is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, protected veteran or military status or any other status protected by applicable law.
