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Salary: USD 141,600 - 212,400 / annual
Klaviyo is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join the Detection and Response (D&R) team. This is a hands-on technical role focused on building and maintaining secure, reliable, and scalable detection and response systems to enhance security observability capabilities. You will participate in the full end-to-end detection development and response lifecycle, support threat response operations, and leverage security and engineering expertise to provide thought leadership on complex security challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build systems that facilitate security observability for detection and response
- Develop AI-first security systems to automate detection and response operations
- Onboard, normalize, and optimize security logging data for large-scale data analysis, detection engineering, ML model deployment, and efficient incident querying
- Develop high-fidelity rule-based and/or ML-based detections as code
- Respond to security alerts, cyber threats, and security incidents
- Drive end-to-end incident response investigations
- Automate and codify detection and response workflows and processes
- Conduct ad-hoc threat hunts and participate in D&R on-call rotations
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in software, security, and/or data engineering
- Automation-first and AI-first approach to work
- Experience with centralized logging, data lakes, and SIEM solutions
- Familiarity with large-scale data pipelines and data engineering techniques
- Proficiency in programming languages for automation/building (e.g., Python, Go, or similar)
- Proven experience with git/GitHub and CI/CD automations
- Familiarity with tactics, techniques, and procedures used by threat actors
- Experience being part of detection and response or incident response on-call teams
- Strong passion for continuous learning and staying updated on evolving technology
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Team player with strong, self-managing work ethic
Note: Role may require up to 10% travel for onboarding, team meetings, and industry events.
