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Threat Detection and Response Engineer

Whatnot
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Remote$165k - $260kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Threat Detection and Response Engineer at Whatnot, a remote-first live shopping platform. Focused on incident response, threat detection, and security operations to protect a large-scale enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

  • Apply comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of Incident Response concepts, principles, and technical capabilities
  • Collaborate across Information Security and business partners to ensure effective, precise, and rapid response
  • Act as the point of escalation from within the Incident Response team to drive all cyber incidents
  • Identify new detection opportunities, create playbooks, and support new technology implementations to defend against evolving threats
  • Maintain awareness and understanding of the current threat landscape. Analyze threat intelligence with the aim to mitigate potential risks
  • Report the overall health of the SOC via metrics, OKRs, and risk indicators to leadership
  • Provide Incident Response (IR) support when analysis suspects security incidents to help contain and eradicate threats
  • Investigate, document, and report on cyber security issues
  • Create and continuously improve standard processes, operating procedures, and incident response playbooks

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, a related field, or equivalent work experience
  • 5+ years’ experience in cyber incident response, or a similar cyber field, including experience with security principles, and defense-in-depth techniques
  • Experience and understanding of security concepts, SOAR (Tines), EDR, NDR and SIEM (Chronicle) technologies
  • Experience with multiple Cloud Service Providers (AWS, GCP)
  • Excellent written communication skills with the ability to document, communicate, and report security incidents, as well as the status of the implementation and effectiveness of cybersecurity controls with product and business leaders
  • Expected to perform on-call duties

Skills

Required:Incident ResponseIR playbooksThreat intelligenceSOAR (Tines)EDRNDRSIEM (Chronicle)Cloud platforms

Benefits

  • Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
  • Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Work From Home Support
  • Care benefits
  • Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
  • Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
  • Parental Leave
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Whatnot

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the U.S.

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the U.S., connecting buyers and sellers in real-time across any category – from collectibles like trading cards to comics, fashion, sneakers, and more.

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