Legora
(Senior OR Staff) Detection & Response Engineer
New York City. Posted 2 months ago
The role
This person will own detection and response across endpoints, identity, cloud workloads, SaaS, and AI systems. They will build detections as production software and supervise agents for triage, enrichment, and investigation.
What you will do
- Own detection and response across endpoints, identity, cloud workloads, SaaS, and AI systems
- Hunt, triage, investigate, contain, and drive incidents through resolution
- Build detections as production software using telemetry and pipelines
- Build threat models, telemetry, and response playbooks for AI systems and agents
- Build and supervise agents for triage, enrichment, and investigation
- Map coverage to MITRE ATT&CK and validate through threat hunting and emulation
- Share the on-call rotation and act as incident commander
- Run post-incident reviews
- Investigate insider risk and identity abuse
- Track actors and campaigns targeting AI companies
Required qualifications
- 5+ years in detection engineering, incident response, or security operations for Senior
- 10+ years and experience setting detection and response strategy for Staff
- Strong software engineering skills in Python and SQL
- Experience using LLMs and agents in security work
- Fluency across endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS telemetry
Nice to have
- Experience with a modern SIEM or security data lake and at least two relevant query or rule languages, such as SPL, KQL, YARA-L, Sigma, or SQL
- Experience securing AI systems, agent tool use, and AI data flows, including prompt injection and exfiltration risks
- Experience with response automation, incident management, digital forensics, or malware analysis
- Threat intelligence, insider risk, or DLP experience
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Multiple medical plan options through Aetna and Kaiser Permanente
- HSA or Healthcare FSA
- Dental plans via MetLife
- Vision plans via Vision Care
- Generous parental leave
- Free access to Maven Clinic
- Dependent Care FSA
- Free One Medical membership for employees and dependents
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Life Insurance + STD/LTD
- 401(K) with generous company match
About the company
Legora is an AI-native workspace for legal professionals. They have 2,100+ customers across 80+ countries and have scaled to $200M+ in ARR.