Job brief: Senior Security Engineer - Detection & Response

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• Listed on Klaviyo's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-07.
• The apply link opens klaviyo.com, the address Klaviyo's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $141,600 to $212,400 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: San Francisco, CA · Boston · Denver +1
• Posted: 2026-09-10

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• 5+ years of hands-on security experience in modern cloud environments
• The range displayed below reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all our US locations.

Conditions

• Be an active member of D&R on-call rotations
• Experience being part of detection and response or incident response on-call
• This role may require up to 10% travel for purposes such as new hire onboarding, client or partner work if applicable, team meetings, and industry events. Travel is coordinated in…
• We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, citizenship, national origin, color, religion or religious creed, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual o…

Main duties

• Respond to alerts, cyber threats, and drive end-to-end incident response investigations
• Build security tooling to drive automation across D&R lifecycle
• Improve and maintain detection and response pipelines and underlying systems
• Work with our Threat Intelligence team to identify and respond to sophisticated threats
• Develop AI-first security systems to automate detection and response operations

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA: $193k a year (682 listings, 42 employers). This listing is 8% lower.
• Across Klaviyo's 127 open listings, 35% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Klaviyo hires

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