# Detection and Response Engineer at Modal

- Company: Modal
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://modal.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $270K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/e1915603-d9de-4760-b445-c266a1080499
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/modal-detection-and-response-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Engineering