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Detection and Response Engineer

Modal Labs · New York

CHECKED 16H AGO

Infrastructureonsite$150k–$270k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build high-fidelity detections for attacks and anomalous platform behavior.
  • Build automation and playbooks that speed investigations and response.
  • Drive post-incident improvements that eliminate whole classes of incidents.

Ideal candidate

Security-minded engineer who loves building automated defenses and learns from every incident. You care about making complex platforms resilient and enjoy partnering with engineers to improve observability.

Requirements

  • Experience in detection engineering, incident response, security engineering, or software engineering with security focus
  • Strong software engineering skills with experience building production systems
  • Experience investigating security incidents in cloud-native or distributed environments
  • Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Linux, and networking
  • Experience building detections using logs, telemetry, behavioral signals, or large-scale event data
  • Strong SQL skills for investigating security events and developing detections
  • Interest in applying AI and LLMs to detection, investigation, and response
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Lab profile

About Modal Labs

Serverless cloud infrastructure for AI workloads with instant GPU compute.

What they build

  • Serverless GPU cloud platform
  • Python SDK
  • Cloud sandboxes

Known for

  • Systems engineering at scale
  • ML performance optimization
  • Developer-first experience
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