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Staff Security Engineer - Detection and Response at Ridgeline

Department: Security Engineering

Compensation

$205,000 – $256,000/yr

Location
Reno, Nevada · San Ramon, California
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Ridgeline is hiring a Staff Security Engineer focused on detection and response at L4 level, with work locations in San Ramon, California and Reno, Nevada. The role leads the Detections and Response roadmap, architects AI-powered detection and triage pipelines, SIEM and SOAR systems, incident response, and security infrastructure, and mentors engineers. Candidates need at least 8 years of relevant experience, strong Python or other high-level language skills, AI/LLM systems expertise, detection-as-code and alerting experience, AWS knowledge, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD familiarity. The typical starting salary is $205,000 to $256,000, with company stock and employee insurance benefits.

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