# (Senior OR Staff) Detection & Response Engineer at Legora

- Company: Legora
- What the company does: Legora is the collaborative AI powering lawyers to review and research faster, draft smarter, and advise with precision. Legora adapts to your ways of working, unlocking team and machine collaboration at scale. Backed by Accel, Bessemer and General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://legora.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $187K to $329K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-24
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/legora/e30a83fd-f911-4564-bbfa-68c98c68d08f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/legora-senior-or-staff-detection-and-response-engineer/

## About the role

Own detection and response across endpoints, identity, cloud workloads, SaaS, and Legora's AI systems. Hunt, triage, investigate, contain, and drive incidents through resolution, then turn what you learn into better detections and controls. 5+ years in detection engineering, incident response, or security operations, including work as a senior escalation point. For Staff, we expect roughly 10+ years and experience setting detection and response strategy.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years in detection engineering, incident response, or security operations, including work as a senior escalation point. For Staff, we expect roughly 10+ years and experience setting detection and response strategy
- Strong software engineering skills in Python and SQL. You build detections, automations, and telemetry pipelines that run reliably in production
- You use LLMs and agents in day-to-day security work and know which decisions require a human. Be ready to show us an investigation or workflow you automated
- Fluent across endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS telemetry. You reason from attacker behaviour and correlate signals across systems
- You communicate clearly during incidents and turn incomplete technical evidence into sound decisions. Your post-incident reviews lead to concrete changes

Tags: IT