Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SentinelOne is a company at the intersection of AI and security, pioneering a new operating model for cybersecurity. As a Manager of Detection Engineering, you will lead the Rapid Response Team, focusing on reliable detection coverage for emerging threats and vulnerabilities while personally contributing to detection engineering work.
Responsibilities
- Stay hands-on: personally develop, review, and drive detections to merge and release, especially during surges and for the hardest threats, setting the technical standard the team is measured against
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of five or more Senior to Staff detection engineers, owning hiring, development, performance, and day-to-day operations
- Own RRT's operational cadence: threat triage and prioritization, SLO adherence, incident coordination, and workload balancing across concurrent threats
- Protect the team's focus and capacity, shielding engineers from unscoped demand while ensuring high-priority work is met within target turnaround times
- Grow the cross-functional partnerships that extend RRT's reach, representing the team in shared forums that drive accountability, surface emerging threats, and communicate impact to leadership
- Own and evolve the team's roadmap, process documentation, service charter, and metrics, keeping the operation mature, measurable, and defensible
- Champion the detection automation and tooling that multiplies engineer output, aligning the automation roadmap with the team's needs
- Drive proactive, transparent communication of RRT's work, coverage, and outcomes to stakeholders, partner teams, and detection leadership
Skills
- Proven experience leading or mentoring a detection engineering, threat detection, or SOC-adjacent team. Direct people management is ideal, but a strong technical lead ready to step fully into management will also be considered; this is a people leadership role for someone who wants to grow as a leader and is also deeply technical
- Current, hands-on detection engineering expertise: you can personally write, review, and tune detection rules today, not just oversee others, with a firm grasp of the end-to-end detection lifecycle and false negative and false positive feedback loops
- Strong, hands-on experience with GitHub and detection-as-code pipelines, including fluency in pull requests, code review, and merge-to-release workflows
- Hands-on experience developing detections across more than one engine (endpoint behavioral, signature-based such as YARA, and cloud or SIEM-based across multiple data sources), or the ability to ramp quickly across engines
- Experience developing detections at a product or vendor company, where coverage must span many customers and industries rather than a single organization
- Strong understanding of adversary behavior, MITRE ATT&CK, and real-world threats such as ransomware and in-the-wild campaigns
- A track record in fast-moving, SLO-driven environments with competing priorities, and the flexibility to lead emerging threat responses whenever they break, including outside a traditional schedule rather than waiting for the next business day
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to represent a technical team to senior leadership and partner teams
- Experience establishing or maturing team processes, metrics, and documentation that leadership can rely on
- Familiarity with intake and triage workflows and detection automation tooling is a strong plus
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Flexible time off
- Paid company holidays and paid sick time
- Gender-neutral parental leave
- Grandparent leave
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Life and disability insurance
- Health and dependent care FSA
- Voluntary benefits (hospital, accident, critical illness)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- ARAG pre-paid legal
- Nationwide pet insurance
- Cancer Care program
- Global business travel medical insurance
- Home office allowance
- Mobile phone reimbursement
- Wellness coach
- Wellness/gym reimbursement
- Fertility coverage
- Adoption & surrogacy reimbursement
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