# Staff Detection & Response Engineer at Kikoff

- Company: Kikoff
- What the company does: Kikoff's credit building app is the the fastest way to build credit safely, with plans from $5/month. Backed by Lightspeed.
- Company website: https://kikoff.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kikoff/jobs/4400740009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/kikoff-staff-detection-and-response-engineer/

## 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)

Tags: Engineering