# Manager, Detection & Response Engineering (DRE) Bengaluru, India Apply now at Exaforce

- Company: Exaforce
- What the company does: Built on a unified data layer and real-time knowledge graph, Exaforce gives security teams the speed, context, and reasoning to stop AI-era threats. Backed by Peak XV.
- Company website: http://exaforce.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://www.exaforce.com/careers/mdr-manager
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/exaforce-manager-detection-and-response-engineering-dre-bengaluru-india-apply-no/

## About the role

We are seeking an experienced people leader to manage our global Detection and Response Engineering (DRE) team within our cybersecurity MDR organization. In this role, you will build, lead, and develop a team of Detection and Response Engineers responsible for protecting our customers' cloud environments.

## What they're looking for

- Hire, onboard, coach, and manage performance for a team of Detection and Response Engineers across multiple geographies and time zones
- Own the team's on-call/rotational coverage model, staffing, and capacity planning to ensure 24/7 detection and response coverage
- Set quality standards and review processes for detection rule tuning, alert triage, correlation logic, and incident investigations across the team
- Act as the escalation point for high-severity security incidents, driving containment, eradication, and recommending recovery efforts alongside the team
- Define and track team KPIs/SLAs (e.g., time-to-detect, time-to-respond, false-positive rates) and report on team performance to leadership
- Partner with Product and Engineering to feed field-identified detection gaps, tooling needs, and platform feedback into the roadmap