Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Confluent is a company focused on transforming how data moves and is utilized. They are seeking an experienced engineering leader to head their Detection & Response organization within Infrastructure Security, responsible for defining strategic vision and leading a global team to enhance security operations across multi-cloud environments.
Responsibilities
- Own the strategic vision and roadmap execution for Confluent's Detection & Response program across our multi-cloud infrastructure
- Build, scale, and mentor a distributed, global team across North America and India
- Drive the evolution of detection engineering and incident response capabilities by utilizing modern software practices with an emphasis on large scale automation
- Oversee security incident response operations, serving as an escalation point/Incident Commander during high-severity security events and driving post-incident reviews
- Establish or improve operational metrics to continuously evaluate and improve program maturity
- Partner closely with Engineering, and stakeholders across Legal and Compliance teams, to integrate detection telemetry and proactive response across the company
- Champion an engineering-centric security culture focused on automation, noise reduction, and continuous improvement to minimize operational toil for responders
Skills
- 12+ years of experience in software development, security engineering, or security operations, with 5+ years in direct engineering or security management
- Proven track record of building, coaching, and scaling engineering teams across multiple time zones
- Deep technical domain expertise across detection engineering, incident response, and threat intelligence. Experience building or operating scalable data/event pipelines, modern telemetry stacks, or stream-processing architectures
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex, high-severity security incidents with composure, clarity, and cross-functional leadership
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to translate complex security risks into clear strategic priorities for engineering leadership
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent experience
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