Detection & Response Security Engineer

About this role

Harvey seeks a security-minded engineer to build and lead their detection and response program, leveraging offensive security expertise to proactively identify threats against their AI platform serving major enterprises and law firms. You'll design threat detection systems, develop data pipelines, and lead incident response while contributing code to their ClickHouse-based threat detection platform.

What you'll do

• Develop threat scenarios using offensive security expertise to identify detection opportunities
• Build data pipelines and logging infrastructure to improve observability and threat detection
• Create and maintain detection rules in collaboration with the detection and response team
• Lead incident response efforts when security incidents occur
• Assess logs for gaps and implement additional logging as needed
• Participate in table-top exercises and red team assessments to evaluate detection effectiveness

What they're looking for

• Offensive security and vulnerability identification (privilege escalation, network weaknesses)
• Security incident response and incident command
• Computer networks, operating systems, and cryptographic protocols
• Data pipeline architecture and engineering
• Detection engineering and rule development
• ClickHouse or similar data warehouse platforms
• Software engineering and system design
• Cloud and application security assessment

Benefits

• Competitive salary: $188,000 - $282,000
• Early-stage opportunity to shape foundational security program
• Work with high-performing team at a hyper-growth company with strong product-market fit
• Opportunity to develop software engineering and system design skills
• Regular red team exercises and penetration testing engagement