Serval
Security Engineer, Detection and Response
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 41 days ago
Agentic AICybersecuritySIEMDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- You'll be a hands-on leader with deep technical credibility and strong operational instincts.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate detection and response operations, including continuous monitoring, triage, investigation, containment, and remediation of security events across a diverse set of networks and infrastructure.
- Build, lead, and directly mentor a team spanning observability, detection and response, and threat intelligence, hiring and scaling these functions deliberately and proportionately as Serval's platform and customer footprint grow.
- Partner deeply across Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure to embed detection and response into Serval's systems by design rather than as an afterthought.
- Build a security program capable of withstanding sophisticated adversaries, including by using Serval's own agents to solve frontier security and security-operations problems.
- Have deep experience building and leading detection and response, instrumentation/observability, and threat intelligence teams.
- Growth: Build a fundamentally new AI product offering with the support of our experienced team and investors.
Requirements
- Have 10+ years in cybersecurity with deep expertise in detection engineering, incident response, and security operations.
- Have deep expertise in modern observability stacks (e.g., SIEM, data lakes, EDR, cloud telemetry, logging) and detection primitives.
Benefits
- Improve detection quality and coverage by partnering with engineering teams to ensure critical telemetry is available, reliable, and actionable across cloud, corporate, and production environments.
Company info
- Serval http://serval.com is an AI-native automation platform transforming how enterprises operate. We build intelligent agents that understand real-world workflows and execute them end-to-end - replacing manual processes and rigid legacy systems with adaptive, learning software. Founded in early 2024, Serval is already trusted by companies like Fox, Notion, Perplexity, Vercel, and Brex to automate high-volume, high-friction operational work across their organizations.
- At the core of Serval is an agentic AI platform that turns natural language into production-grade workflows. Our agents don't just respond to requests - they reason, take action across systems, and continuously improve with usage. What began with operational use cases has quickly evolved into a horizontal AI automation layer used across IT, HR, Finance, Security, Legal, and Engineering.
- Our mission is to eliminate repetitive, manual work across the enterprise and give teams leverage through intelligent automation. Long term, we're building the universal AI operations layer - a system of agents that sits across business functions and runs the workflows that keep modern companies moving.
- We're backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Meritech, First Round, General Catalyst, Elad Gil, and others.
- Serval http://serval.com is an AI-native automation platform transforming how enterprises operate.
- We build intelligent agents that understand real-world workflows and execute them end-to-end - replacing manual processes and rigid legacy systems with adaptive, learning software.
- Founded in early 2024, Serval is already trusted by companies like Fox, Notion, Perplexity, Vercel, and Brex to automate high-volume, high-friction operational work across their organizations.
- At the core of Serval is an agentic AI platform that turns natural language into production-grade workflows.
- Our agents don't just respond to requests - they reason, take action across systems, and continuously improve with usage.
- What began with operational use cases has quickly evolved into a horizontal AI automation layer used across IT, HR, Finance, Security, Legal, and Engineering.
- Our mission is to eliminate repetitive, manual work across the enterprise and give teams leverage through intelligent automation.
- Long term, we're building the universal AI operations layer - a system of agents that sits across business functions and runs the workflows that keep modern companies moving.
- Be a key player in shaping the success of our product and company.
- Join a culture that values innovation, ownership, accountability, and fun.
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