Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Summary

Join Headspace as a Senior Security Engineer and be at the forefront of automating response playbooks, integrating security tooling, and crafting innovative detection strategies. You will support efforts to bring innovative features to life, leverage cutting-edge technologies, and ensure platform security for over 65 million users. This role involves implementing and maintaining critical security tools, leading incident responses, designing automated workflows, integrating security platforms, conducting threat modeling, developing threat detection rules, collaborating with partner teams, researching cybersecurity threats, analyzing security data, and participating in incident reviews. The position requires 5+ years of relevant experience, a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent, and expertise in threat detection, incident response, scripting, threat modeling, and cloud security. The role is remote in the US or hybrid in San Francisco or Los Angeles. Headspace offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits including comprehensive healthcare, a wellness stipend, retirement savings match, and generous parental leave.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent
• Experience in developing and tuning threat detection rules and signatures
• Understanding of incident response procedures and forensic techniques
• Proficiency in a scripting language for automation
• Strong understanding of threat modeling
• Knowledge of networking, operating systems internals, and cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) security
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and verbal and written communication skills
• Experience maintaining procedure documentation for internal and external stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Implement, manage, and maintain critical security tools and infrastructure
• Lead and respond to security incidents
• Design and implement automated security investigation, response, and operational workflows
• Integrate diverse security platforms such as SIEM, SOAR, EDR for a unified defense
• Conduct proactive threat modeling to identify risks in systems and processes
• Develop and maintain advanced threat detection rules and analytics
• Collaborate with partner teams to embed security best practices
• Research emerging cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and innovative defense strategies
• Analyze security data to identify trends, measure control effectiveness, and provide reports
• Participate in security incident response and post-incident reviews
• Contribute to the development of detection strategies and automation playbooks

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in healthcare

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Retirement savings match
• Lifetime Headspace membership
• Generous parental leave