Staff Engineer, Security Operations

Join Apollo's Security team as a Staff Engineer, where you'll lead the detection and response strategy, build detection systems, and set standards for the team. You'll work closely with Engineering, Infrastructure, and IT, and mentor engineers to own detections and lead incidents. You'll also own detection architecture, security observability, and the incident response plan. This is a hands-on role that requires expertise in cloud and SaaS environments, strong Python skills, and experience leading high-severity incidents.

About Apollo.io

Hands-on experience designing detection architecture and shipping detection systems on a modern SIEM (Panther highly valued)

Responsibilities

• Lead the detection and response (D&R) strategy for Apollo’s Security team, delivering hands-on implementation and building detection systems.
• Own the D&R strategy and turn it into multi-quarter initiatives tied to Security Key Results, reporting progress and risks to leadership.
• Mentor engineers to own detections and lead incidents, and help raise the hiring bar, while also setting D&R standards and architecture.

Requirements

• 8+ years in detection and response, detection engineering, security engineering or incident response
• Track record of leading D&R strategy or multi-quarter initiatives with measurable results
• Experience leading high-severity incidents in cloud and SaaS environments and improving the IR process behind them
• Cloud and SaaS expertise, ideally GCP, plus familiarity with tools like Google Workspace, Okta, GitHub, Slack, Atlassian, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Kandji and Snowflake

Strong Python, Git, CI/CD and detection-as-code skills

• Sound judgment with incomplete information, and the influence to align technical and non-technical leaders without formal authority
• Public security work (detection content, open-source tools, talks, research) or certifications such as GCIA, GCIH or GCED
• AI-assisted triage, investigation or response in production, with a clear view of its limits

Preferred

• Staff, Lead or Principal-level experience at a high-growth cloud or SaaS company

Pay

USD 184,000 - 264,500