Director of Detection and Response
Hybrid (San Francisco)$280k - $385kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Technical leadership role responsible for building and guiding Harvey’s Detection and Response organization, incident response, and defense optimization across production platform and corporate environment. Owns strategy, technical direction, and operational readiness; partners with CISO and cross-functional leaders to protect customer data and enable rapid, confident delivery.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead the organization. Hire and develop detection engineers, incident responders, and technical leaders; establish clear ownership and a culture of curiosity, sound judgment, and continuous learning. Own the roadmap, staffing plan, and investment decisions.
- Own incident response and crisis readiness. Lead Harvey’s response to major security incidents, coordinating investigation, containment, recovery, and executive communication. Build clear severity criteria, escalation paths, playbooks, and sustainable 24/7 coverage for critical threats; develop incident commanders and cross-functional responders through exercises.
- Build detection as an engineering capability. Set the technical direction for telemetry, detection pipelines, forensic tooling, and response automation across cloud, endpoint, identity, SaaS, and application environments. Apply software engineering practices to test detections, improve signal quality, and reduce manual work; evaluate AI-assisted investigation with measurable quality and appropriate human oversight.
- Focus defenses on meaningful threats. Use threat intelligence, hunting, and an attacker’s perspective to prioritize scenarios that matter to Harvey, including account compromise, data theft, insider risk, privileged-access abuse, and abuse of AI-enabled workflows. Partner with offensive security and platform owners to validate coverage and close blind spots.
- Make response a company capability. Partner with Engineering, IT, Legal, Privacy, Communications, and Customer Trust on sensitive investigations and crisis decisions. Establish clear escalation and decision authority, preserve evidence, and provide accurate findings to support Legal-led notification and disclosure decisions. Prepare cross-functional responders to contribute when incidents require broader support.
- Turn incidents into lasting improvements. Drive blameless reviews and ensure corrective actions have owners, deadlines, and verified outcomes. Measure detection coverage, time to detect and contain, recurring failure modes, and responder workload, and use those results to guide investments and reduce customer impact.
Qualifications
- Experience building and leading Detection and Response, incident response, or security engineering teams in a technology company with complex production systems.
- A record of hiring strong engineers, developing technical leaders, and scaling both the team and its operating model.
- Deep incident response experience and demonstrated judgment during serious security events. Ability to lead investigations with incomplete information, make timely containment decisions, and communicate clearly with executives, engineers, and business partners.
- Strong technical foundations in cloud infrastructure, operating systems, networking, identity, and attacker tradecraft, with depth in detection engineering, threat hunting, or digital forensics.
- Engineering approach to security operations, backed by experience building detection platforms, investigation tools, or response automation.
- Ability to turn business risk into a focused strategy and deliver it through influence and partnership.
- Experience protecting enterprise SaaS, sensitive customer data, or AI/ML environments is valuable; experience investigating insider threats or leading response under regulatory/public scrutiny is a plus.
Skills
Required:Detection engineeringIncident response leadershipCloud infrastructure
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- 401k with company match up to 4%
- Flexible PTO
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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