Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
About the role
We're hiring a Lead Engineer, Incident Response to lead and shape a16z's detection and response team. This is a hands-on role: you'll spend a significant portion of your time investigating incidents, writing and reviewing detections, building automation, and making the harder technical response decisions. You'll also manage and develop the engineers on the team. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 9+ years of incident response or detection and response experience, or equivalent demonstrated impact, with depth in cloud incident response across AWS and GCP
- Prior experience managing security engineers, including coaching and performance management, while remaining technically hands-on
- A track record of building and leading detection and response programs, making architecture and prioritization decisions, and delivering measurable improvements
- Experience leading high-stakes incidents across cloud, SaaS, identity, and endpoint environments, including forensic investigation, containment, recovery, and postmortems
- Strong detection engineering skills, including SIEM query languages or rule formats such as KQL or Sigma, detection-as-code, testing, and tuning
- Experience running hypothesis-driven threat hunts and investigating sophisticated attacks, including identity compromise, social engineering, and data exfiltration
More about this role
Founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z) is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic . We invest in seed to venture to growth-stage technology companies, across AI , bio + healthcare , consumer , crypto , enterprise , fintech , games , and companies building toward American dynamism . a16z has $100B+ under management across multiple funds.
We’ve established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the company-building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. We’ve invested in companies like Anduril, Airbnb, Coinbase, Cursor, Databricks, Deel, Figma, GitHub, Roblox, SpaceX, and Stripe. Our team is at the forefront of new technology, helping founders and their companies impact and change the world.
We're hiring a Lead Engineer, Incident Response to lead and shape a16z's detection and response team. This is a hands-on role: you'll spend a significant portion of your time investigating incidents, writing and reviewing detections, building automation, and making the harder technical response decisions. You'll also...
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