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Detection and Response Engineer

About Us:AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal.Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt t

Company

Modal

Location

New York

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-17T17:46:05.27+00:00

Modal is hiring a detection and response engineer in New York, on-site, to build systems that identify, investigate and respond to threats across its platform. The work covers detection engineering, incident investigations, response playbooks and internal security tooling, including using LLMs to automate analysis and surface insights from telemetry. The posting asks for production software engineering experience, incident investigation in cloud-native or distributed environments, familiarity with Kubernetes, Linux and networking, and strong SQL. Preferred experience includes SIEM, SOAR or EDR platforms and threat hunting.