What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Detection & Response Engineer position at Atlas Search?
About the Company
A fast-growing fintech company is transforming how modern finance teams work through intelligent automation, integrated payments, corporate cards, procurement, travel, vendor management, and bookkeeping tools. Backed by leading investors and built by teams with deep experience across finance, security, and technology, the company helps businesses save time, reduce costs, and operate with greater control and visibility.
About the Role
We are seeking a Lead Detection & Response Engineer to help mature security detection, alerting, and incident response capabilities across public sector and regulated environments. This role is ideal for a hands-on security professional who enjoys investigating threats, improving alerts, building automation, and partnering closely with engineering teams. This position requires in-person work in New York City at least two days per week.
Responsibilities
- Respond to and triage security requests, alerts, and incidents submitted by internal teams.
- Review logs, alerts, and audit sources to identify potential security incidents and perform initial investigations.
- Create, maintain, and tune runbooks, detections, and alerting workflows to improve response quality.
- Partner with security engineers to enhance alerting, remediation, and detection coverage.
- Design and implement automation to detect, investigate, and respond to threats more effectively.
Requirements
- 3–4 years of information technology experience or an equivalent mix of education, training, and hands-on experience.
- Experience working in information security, ideally within a SOC, CSIRT, CERT, or incident response environment.
- Hands-on experience with query-based log management or security analytics tools such as ELK, Datadog, Panther, or similar platforms.
- Strong critical thinking, deductive reasoning, and technical investigation skills.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document technical details and explain security issues to peers and leadership.
Salary : $185,000 - $283,000