Senior Detection and Response Engineer

Altruist is transforming the multi-trillion dollar wealth management industry by building an AI platform for wealth professionals. We partner with financial advisors nationwide, empowering them to grow, optimize time and resources, and deliver superior outcomes for their clients.

We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you!

But first, our values

Kindness - Kindness doesn’t just equal niceness. We listen to understand. We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives. We approach conflict openly, honestly, and respectfully.

Brilliance - Humility is the skill we’re most proud of and possessing a growth mindset is always top of mind. We take ownership in everything we touch; regularly using our unique superpowers to reach a common goal as a team. We succeed and fail as one.

Grit - When challenges arise, we stay laser focused on achieving our mission and finding a way forward, even when it’s hard. We are nimble and maintain a sense of urgency, swiftly adapting to change and overcoming obstacles.

Altruist is in the midst of an exciting phase and we’re excited to hire a Senior Detection and Response Engineer to join our growing Security team. You’ll build the detections and response capability that find and stop threats across our cloud, endpoints, and identity providers.

This role follows a hybrid schedule, with three days per week onsite in our San Francisco FiDi or Culver City office.

• Build, tune, and maintain high-fidelity detections as code across SIEM, cloud, endpoint , and identity telemetry.

• Triage and investigate alerts, lead response on security incidents, and proactively threat-hunt for “low and slow” and insider activity.

• Operationalize threat intelligence and IOC ingestion into detections and edge/WAF rules.

• Develop response playbooks and automation (SOAR) to reduce toil and speed containment.

• Partner with our MDR and IR partners and run purple-team exercises with our red team security engineers.

• Continuously improve logging coverage and detection efficacy, measured against MITRE ATT&CK.

• Experience - 4+ years of experience in detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting:

• Hands-on authoring of detections in a modern SIEM

• Investigations across cloud (AWS), endpoint, and identity data sources

• Comfort scripting and automating (e.g., Python)

• Strong ability to work independently

• Education - A B.A. / B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Information Security or relevant experience

• Technical aptitude - You’re technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (i.e., AWS, Kubernetes, Datadog/Splunk, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike, Terraform, etc.)

• Ownership - The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable

• Superb communication - Intentional dialogue is a superpower. You