# Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response

**Company**: Block
**Location**: Bay Area, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Zone A: $217,800-$326,800 USD
Zone B: $207,000-$310,400 USD
Zone C: $196,100-$294,100 USD
Zone D: $185,200-$277,800 USD
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Role

Block’s Detection and Response Team (DART) investigates and responds to threats across our products and systems. Within DART, the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) leads complex investigations and coordinates the response to security incidents across the company.

You’ll establish what happened, determine the scope and impact, guide containment and recovery, and keep responders and stakeholders aligned. You’ll be a trusted resource for your peers, contributing technical judgment and direction to complex investigations and helping the team make sound decisions.

Responsibilities:

- Command complex, high-impact security incidents from initial assessment through containment, recovery, and closure.

- Investigate threats across endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, network, and application systems and drive containment and remediation with system owners, weighing urgency, evidence preservation, and business impact.

- Reconstruct timelines, preserve evidence, and determine the scope and impact of incidents.

- Coordinate containment and remediation with system owners while balancing urgency and business impact.

- Keep incident priorities, decisions, owners, and handoffs clear across teams and time zones.

- Lead post-incident reviews and drive findings, uncertainty, and response decisions to technical teams and business partners.

- Write code, queries, and automation that accelerate evidence collection, analysis, and response.

Requirements:

- 6+ years of hands-on incident response and digital forensics experience.

- Experience commanding major security incidents involving multiple teams and competing priorities.

- Strong knowledge of attacker behavior and depth in several areas of identity, endpoint, cloud, network, or application security.

- Strong SQL/database understanding and log-analysis skills, and practical programming or scripting ability, such as Python.

Benefits:

- Remote work

- Medical insurance

- Flexible time off

- Retirement savings plans

- Modern family planning

## Skills

### Required
- incident response
- digital forensics
- SQL
- Python
- cloud security
- endpoint security
- network security
- application security

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