Harvey
Director of Detection and Response
San Francisco · Director
Sponsorship not specified$280k-$385kDetected 8 days ago
Cloud PlatformsMachine LearningAgentic AICybersecuritySOC OperationsDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseLeadershipCommunication
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59Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role80
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
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About the role
- Working with the CISO and leaders across Engineering, Infrastructure, IT, Legal, and Customer Trust, you'll translate business risk into a focused program that protects customer data and enables Harvey to move quickly with confidence.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead the organization. Hire and develop detection engineers, incident responders, and technical leaders
- develop incident commanders and cross-functional responders through exercises.
- Build detection as an engineering capability.
- Partner with Engineering, IT, Legal, Privacy, Communications, and Customer Trust on sensitive investigations and crisis decisions.
- Establish clear escalation and decision authority, preserve evidence, and provide accurate findings to support Legal-led notification and disclosure decisions.
- Prepare cross-functional responders to contribute when incidents require broader support.
- Experience building and leading Detection and Response, incident response, or security engineering teams in a technology company with complex production systems.
- A record of hiring strong engineers, developing technical leaders, and scaling both the team and its operating model.
- Build and lead the organization.
- Own the roadmap, staffing plan, and investment decisions.
Compensation
- $280,000 - $385,000 USD
Benefits
- establish clear ownership and a culture of curiosity, sound judgment, and continuous learning.
- Build clear severity criteria, escalation paths, playbooks, and sustainable 24/7 coverage for critical threats
- Partner with offensive security and platform owners to validate coverage and close blind spots.
- Measure detection coverage, time to detect and contain, recurring failure modes, and responder workload, and use those results to guide investments and reduce customer impact.
Company info
- WHY HARVEY At Harvey, we're transforming how legal and professional services operate.
- Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission - operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence.
- We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are.
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