Detection and Response Engineer

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Braintrust
Full time
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USA
10/26/2026
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Seattle, WA

Responsibilities

Build security telemetry pipelines across cloud execution environments, CI/CD systems, identity systems, endpoints, and agentic workloads.
Continuously improve detections for attacks, abuse, and anomalous behavior.
Own the alert pipeline end-to-end while maintaining a high signal-to-noise ratio.
Lead incident response, participate in on-call, and triage, scope, contain, and remediate incidents.
Write incident postmortems that drive durable security improvements.
Proactively hunt for threats and build tooling that turns evidence into new detections.
Build agents that triage alerts, enrich findings, gather evidence, and scope incidents with human-in-the-loop controls and evaluations.
Run vulnerability response, evaluate impact, and drive remediation across infrastructure.

Requirements

Proficiency in modern backend technologies and the ability to write production code in Python, TypeScript, or Go.
AWS experience with IAM, VPC, KMS, GuardDuty, and CloudTrail, plus working fluency in at least one of Azure or GCP.
Experience with Kubernetes detection, including audit logs, runtime telemetry, and workload identity.
Knowledge of endpoint security on MacOS and detection and response techniques.
Hands-on incident experience, including on-call participation, incident leadership, and postmortem writing.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
A clear point of view on AI/LLM security and hands-on experience defending relevant threats.
Prior experience with LLM red-teaming, agent sandbox research, or other AI-relevant security threat defense is a bonus.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages.
Flexible time off.
Competitive salary and equity.
WiFi and cellphone stipend.

Salary: Competitive

Braintrust

Braintrust is an AI observability platform that integrates evaluation and observability into a seamless workflow, allowing developers to gain insights into AI performance in production. With clients like Notion, Stripe, and Vercel, Braintrust empowers teams to compare models, test prompts, and id...

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