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Tech Lead, Detection & Response

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COMPANYHadrian

As Tech Lead for Detection & Response, you will be the senior technical owner of how Hadrian detects, investigates, and responds to threats across our corporate, cloud, and factory environments. This is a hands-on senior IC role leading a small team: you will set the technical direction, build the next-generation AI-native detection stack, and lead from the keyboard.

What You’ll Do:

  • Own detection & response end to end — strategy, architecture, and hands-on engineering — across corporate, cloud, and factory environments.
  • Design and build an AI-native D&R stack: detection-as-code, LLM-assisted triage and enrichment, and agentic response automation.
  • Lead incident response from triage through containment, remediation, and postmortem, including high-severity scenarios.
  • Set technical direction for a small detection & response team; mentor engineers and raise the bar on detections, playbooks, and tooling.
  • Partner with IT, infrastructure, and compliance teams to meet ITAR and CMMC detection, monitoring, and response requirements.

What We’re Looking For:

  • 8+ years of security engineering experience with deep, hands-on detection & response expertise (SIEM, EDR, cloud and identity telemetry, SOAR).
  • Strong software engineering skills with detection-as-code and infrastructure-as-code fluency.
  • A track record of setting technical direction as a tech lead, team lead, or anchor senior IC.
  • Demonstrated application of AI/LLM tooling to security workflows — and sound judgment about its limits.
  • Experience leading incident response end to end in production environments.

What Will Set You Apart:

  • Red team, penetration testing, or adversary emulation experience at any point in your career.
  • Experience in ITAR, CMMC, or other regulated defense or government environments.
  • Exposure to OT/ICS or manufacturing environment security.
  • Production experience building agentic or LLM-based security automation.
  • 0→1 experience building a security capability at a fast-scaling startup.

Benefits for Full-time Employees:

  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees.
  • 401k.
  • Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.
  • Flexible vacation policy.
  • Equity.