Senior Manager of Detection and Response

Join Lambda Security, a company dedicated to protecting valuable digital assets and ensuring the safety of AI development. As the Senior Manager of Detection and Response, you will lead a high-performing team, define team processes and culture, drive outcomes, and establish a comprehensive detection and response strategy. You will have the opportunity to pioneer AI-powered security solutions and make a significant impact on customer trust and data safety.

Lead the Detection & Response team to transform reactive security operations into a proactive threat management engine, focusing on automation and threat hunting.

Thrives in high-ambiguity environments where you must build structure while executing at startup pace

USD 360,000 - 480,000

Responsibilities

• Build, hire, and lead a high-performing Detection & Response team that can scale with Lambda's hypergrowth while maintaining 24/7 operational excellence.
• Define and implement threat management frameworks that transform reactive security operations into proactive threat hunting and detection, establishing automation standards.

Requirements

• 10+ years of security experience with 5+ years leading technical teams, demonstrating ability to build and manage independently
• Proven ability to define and build security programs from the ground up that accelerate business initiatives, with demonstrated experience establishing team processes, technical frameworks, and cross-functional partnerships
• Excellence at building automation-first security programs where technology eliminates toil and teams never do the same thing twice
• Strong judgment in security response, understanding real business impact and calibrating actions proportionally
• Proven ability to create sustainable team cultures where senior engineers thrive long-term rather than burning out on repetitive tasks
• Clear understanding of the unique requirements of securing a cloud infrastructure provider
• Track record of translating technical security work into executive communications and business-aligned metrics
• Track record using AI/ML for security operations automation (yes, we know it’s all brand new)
• Background scaling security during hypergrowth (10x growth phases)
• Deep technical background allowing hands-on contribution when needed
• Experience with both build and buy decisions for security tooling

Preferred

• Experience driving or providing significant evidence for compliance audits, such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, or FedRAMP

Benefits

• Excitement about leveraging our direct access to state-of-the-art LLMs to revolutionize security operations—imagine AI-powered threat hunting, automated security report generation, and intelligent vulnerability prioritization at a scale only possible when you host the AI infrastructure yourself
• Experience building D&R programs at AI/ML companies