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$150,000 – $270,000
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What this role is
Modal is hiring a Detection and Response Engineer to build systems for identifying and investigating threats across their AI infrastructure platform. The role combines detection engineering, incident response, and security automation, with opportunities to use AI to improve investigation speed and operational effectiveness.
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What they ask for
Required
- Experience in detection engineering, incident response, security engineering, or software engineering with strong security focus
- Strong software engineering skills and 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
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
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