engineering
Posted 5 hours agoSenior Manager, Detection & Response (Security Engineering)
at Confluent
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- - 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.
Requirements
- Our team applies modern engineering principles to security—leveraging scalable Kubernetes pipelines, custom ETL jobs, AI-assisted triage workflows, and Confluent’s own data-streaming platform (Kafka) as our central transport.
- 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
- WHAT YOU WILL BRING: - 12+ years of
Benefits
- In this role, you will define the strategic vision, technical roadmap, and operational execution for how Confluent detects, investigates, and responds to security threats across our multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- WHAT YOU WILL DO: - Own the strategic vision and roadmap execution for Confluent's Detection & Response program across our multi-cloud infrastructure.
Additional details
- We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it.
- Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
- It takes a certain kind of person to join this team.
- Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other.
- Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together. One Confluent. One Team.
- ABOUT THE ROLE: We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to head our Detection & Response organization within Infrastructure Security.
- You will lead and grow a distributed team of high-performing engineers across North America and India.
- If you are passionate about building real-time, high-throughput security automation and fostering an engineering-first incident response culture, this role is for you.
- - 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.