# Senior Security Operations / Detection Engineer at LiteLLM

- Company: LiteLLM
- What the company does: LiteLLM is the open-source AI gateway that puts your full AI stack behind one OpenAI-compatible key. Track and cap LLM spend, route to the right model, and self-host anywhere — even air-gapped. 140+ providers, 1,892 models. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.litellm.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $220K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-05
- Apply by: 2026-12-20
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/litellm/d1adbb67-7b1f-4daf-9863-d1c72069ba47?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/litellm-senior-security-operations-detection-engineer/

## About the role

You’ll own what we can see and how we respond: log pipelines, detections, runbooks, alert handling, and incident coordination. This is a hands-on individual contributor role reporting to our security lead. You’ll work directly with engineering to build and operate a detection and response function suited to a small company. San Francisco is preferred. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Experience building a detection and response function from scratch
- Hands-on experience building and tuning SIEM detections, preferably in Splunk, and managing them as code
- Experience building log pipelines from cloud and CI systems
- Strong familiarity with GitHub, Okta, and cloud audit logs, including their limitations
- Experience leading incidents end-to-end and making containment decisions on partial information

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/litellm-senior-security-operations-detection-engineer/