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Staff Detection & Response Engineer

Typeface - Palo Alto, CA, United States - Hybrid - posted 2026-10-19

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Salary: USD 210,000 - 240,000 / annual

Typeface is an AI-powered marketing orchestration platform trusted by Fortune 100 companies. Founded by Abhay Parasnis and backed by Microsoft, GV, Salesforce Ventures, Lightspeed, Madrona, and Menlo, the company helps brands move from brief to fully personalized campaigns in days instead of months. You will lead the end-to-end incident response lifecycle for Typeface's platform, ensuring enterprise marketers can trust that their brands, content, and data remain protected. This is a high-impact role shaping how a fast-growing AI company detects, responds to, and recovers from security incidents. Key Responsibilities: - Own end-to-end incident response from detection and triage through containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident review - Investigate alerts and suspicious activity across cloud infrastructure, endpoints, identity systems, and SaaS applications - Build and maintain incident response playbooks, runbooks, and escalation paths - Perform log analysis, digital forensics, and threat hunting to uncover root causes and emerging risks - Automate detection and response workflows to reduce time-to-detect and time-to-resolve - Collaborate with Engineering, Product, IT, Legal, and Customer teams to coordinate response and communicate with stakeholders - Run tabletop exercises and drive continuous improvement of security posture - Mentor and support teammates to build a strong, blameless, security-first culture The role is hybrid, based in Palo Alto with 3 days per week in-office collaboration. Requirements: - 10+ years of experience in incident response, security operations, or digital forensics with a strong track record of leading investigations end-to-end - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent practical experience) - Hands-on experience with cloud security in AWS, Azure, or GCP - Experience with SIEM, EDR, and SOAR tools - Strong understanding of attacker techniques and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and NIST incident handling - Scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, or Bash to automate investigation and response tasks - Excellent communication skills and ability to stay calm, thrive independently, and lead in collaborative teams - Experience supporting B2B or enterprise SaaS products - Bonus: Background securing AI or generative AI systems - Bonus: Industry certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, GCIA, or CISSP

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