Guardant Health is a leading precision medicine company focused on transforming patient care and conquering cancer with data. Backed by Khosla, Lightspeed and Sequoia.
About the role
The Staff Security Engineer, reporting to the Associate Director of Security Engineering, will be responsible for strengthening Guardant Health’s ability to detect, investigate, and respond to threats. This role focuses on detection engineering, threat intelligence, security automation, and incident response, with an emphasis on infrastructure, cloud, endpoint, and identity security. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of experience in security engineering, security operations, detection engineering, or incident response
- Strong hands-on experience developing, testing, and tuning SIEM and EDR detections across multiple environments
- Strong background in threat detection and incident response within a SOC environment
- Experience owning open source threat intelligence platforms such as MISP, Yeti, and OpenCTI
- Demonstrated ability to improve alert quality, reduce false positives, and incorporate business context into detection and response decisions
- Experience working with external MDR providers, managed SOCs, or SIEM service partners to improve detection content, investigations, escalations, and response outcomes
More about this role
Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant® is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information, visit guardanthealth.com and follow the company on LinkedIn , X (Twitter) and Facebook .
The Staff Security Engineer, reporting to the Associate Director of Security Engineering, will be responsible for strengthening Guardant Health’s ability to detect, investigate, and respond to threats. This role focuses on detection engineering, threat intelligence, security automation, and incident response, with an emphasis on infrastructure, cloud, endpoint, and identity security.
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