Senior/Staff Threat Detection Engineer, Abridge

• This position requires deep technical expertise, a builder's mindset, and excellent communication skills to influence security culture across the organization.
• 9+ years in Detection Engineering, Incident Response, Advisory Emulation, Offensive Security and/or Threat Intelligence
• Experience in high-growth environments where you've scaled security capabilities alongside rapid organizational expansion, managing evolving threat landscapes and increasing complexity
• Exceptional communicator who can influence technical strategy across all organizational levels, from engineers to executive leadership
• Proven track record leading critical, multi-week incident response efforts and driving post-incident strategic improvements
• Deep technical expertise with demonstrated ability to architect scalable security systems and drive innovation in detection capabilities
• History of moving forward ambiguous, organization-wide initiatives through influence, technical vision, and cross-functional collaboration
• Expert-level knowledge of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures across multiple threat actor groups
• Systems thinker who navigates complexity pragmatically while building toward elegant, maintainable solutions
• Strong experience with cloud security architecture and building production-grade automation and tooling
• Strong scripting skills in multiple scripting/programming languages (Python, Go, etc.)

Desirable

• Want to work on building out security from the ground up at the leading edge of AI in healthcare globally? We're looking for an experienced and highly motivated Senior or Staff Threat Detection and Response Engineer to join our team as one of the first engineers on the Abridge Security Operations team
• In this role, you'll be a key technical leader, with the ultimate goal of increasing the costs to any adversary that chooses to target us or our customers
• This is a greenfield opportunity to architect the way forward for Threat Detection and Response at Abridge.
• You will thrive here if you are passionate about building 0 → 1 and believe that modern security is, at its core, a large-scale data and automation challenge
• Leading investigations of complex, organization-wide security events and establishing best practices across multiple security domains (log analysis, digital forensics, malware analysis)
• Designing and implementing the strategic roadmap for threat detection capabilities, creating high-fidelity detection systems based on deep understanding of advanced threat actor TTPs
• Architecting scalable incident response processes and driving automation across the entire IR lifecycle, establishing patterns for the organization
• Serving as incident commander for critical, cross-organizational security incidents and mentoring others in effective incident management practices
• Driving security research initiatives, discovering novel detection mechanisms and presenting findings to internal teams, executive leadership, and external audiences
• Defining build-vs-buy strategies for security tooling, leading major technical evaluations and driving organizational standards for security automation
• Scaling the security team's capabilities and maturity through technical leadership, mentorship, establishing engineering best practices, and raising the hiring bar