# Senior Detection and Response Engineer at Altruist

- Company: Altruist
- What the company does: The AI-forward wealth platform and custodian that unifies account opening, trading, portfolio management, billing, and reporting. Backed by Insight and ICONIQ.
- Company website: https://altruist.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-23
- Apply: https://altruist.com/join-altruist/6186193004?gh_jid=6186193004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/altruist-senior-detection-and-response-engineer-2/

## About the role

We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you!

## What they're looking for

- Build, tune, and maintain high-fidelity detections as code across SIEM, cloud, endpoint , and identity telemetry
- Triage and investigate alerts, lead response on security incidents, and proactively threat-hunt for “low and slow” and insider activity
- Operationalize threat intelligence and IOC ingestion into detections and edge/WAF rules
- Develop response playbooks and automation (SOAR) to reduce toil and speed containment
- Partner with our MDR and IR partners and run purple-team exercises with our red team security engineers
- Continuously improve logging coverage and detection efficacy, measured against MITRE ATT&CK

Tags: Engineering