Kikoff's credit building app is the the fastest way to build credit safely, with plans from $5/month. Backed by Lightspeed.
About the role
We're scaling fast. Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially. This is a consumer fintech startup, and you will be working with serial entrepreneurs who have built strong consumer brands and innovative products. We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships. Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact.
What they're looking for
- 6+ years in security with meaningful detection engineering and incident response experience in cloud-native environments (AWS strongly preferred)
- You've written detections yourself: SIEM rules, or detection-as-code pipelines, and you've owned the false positive rate that came with them
- Hands-on incident response experience. You've led real incidents, not just participated in them
- Strong command of Cloud Native logging and detection surfaces
- Experience with EDR at fleet scale and identity-based detection
- Fluency in at least one language for automation (Python, Go, Ruby, or similar)
More about this role
Kikoff: The Fintech Powering Financial Security at Scale
Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security. With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, we've built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.
We're scaling fast. Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.
This is a consumer fintech startup, and you will be working with serial entrepreneurs who have built strong consumer brands and innovative products. We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships. Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact.
Kikoff protects millions of customers and their financial data. This role owns the Detection & Response pillar: how we see what's happening across our environment, how fast we know when something is wrong, and how well we respond when it is.
You will own and dictate the detection and response roadmap. You define the detection strategy, decide what gets built...
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