# Detection and Response Engineer

Hiring organization: [Modal](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/modal)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/6f94f9fb-efd0-4856-b6e6-16bc6e44e43e

Listed on Modal's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 150000 – 270000 USD per year

## Summary

Modal is hiring a Detection & Response Engineer to build systems that identify and respond to threats across their AI infrastructure platform. This role suits someone with strong software engineering skills and security incident experience who wants to work on detection automation, investigation tooling, and response capabilities at scale.

_Our summary, not Modal's wording._

## Skills named

Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Linux, LLMs (Large Language Models), SQL

## Required

- Experience in detection engineering, incident response, security engineering, or software engineering with security focus
- Strong software engineering skills and production systems experience
- 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

## Nice to have

- Experience building AI- or LLM-powered security tooling
- Experience with SIEM, SOAR, or EDR platforms
- Experience with Kubernetes security or large-scale cloud infrastructure
- Experience with threat hunting, malware analysis, or digital forensics
- Experience contributing to security operations in a high-growth engineering organization

Apply on Modal's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/e1915603-d9de-4760-b445-c266a1080499/application