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Detection and Response Engineer

Modal · New York · On-site

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About Modal

Bring your own code, and run CPU, GPU, and data-intensive compute at scale. The serverless platform for AI and data teams. Backed by Accel, General Catalyst and AI Grant.

About the role

We're looking for a Detection & Response Engineer to build the systems that help us identify, investigate, and respond to threats across our platform. This is an engineering role focused on automation. You'll build detections, investigation tooling, and response capabilities that scale with our infrastructure, using AI where it meaningfully improves signal, investigation speed, and operational effectiveness.

What they're looking for

  • Experience in detection engineering, incident response, security engineering, or software engineering with a strong security focus
  • Strong software engineering skills with experience building production systems
  • Experience investigating security incidents in cloud-native or distributed environments
  • Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Linux, and networking
  • Experience building detections using logs, telemetry, behavioral signals, or large-scale event data
  • Strong SQL skills for investigating security events and developing detections
More about this role

Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now.

Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable , Ramp , Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale.

We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September.

Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g., Seaborn , Luig i ), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.

We're looking for a Detection & Response Engineer to build the systems that help us identify, investigate, and respond to threats across our platform.

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