Senior Manager of Detection and Response

Lambda

United States Posted September 12, 2026

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Remote Full-time Senior
Salary Range

$360,000 - $480,000

Job Description

Join Lambda Security, a company dedicated to protecting valuable digital assets and ensuring the safety of AI development. As the Senior Manager of Detection and Response, you will lead a high-performing team, define team processes and culture, drive outcomes, and establish a comprehensive detection and response strategy. You will have the opportunity to pioneer AI-powered security solutions and make a significant impact on customer trust and data safety.

  • Lead the Detection & Response team to transform reactive security operations into a proactive threat management engine, focusing on automation and threat hunting.
  • Build, hire, and lead a high-performing Detection & Response team that can scale with Lambda's hypergrowth while maintaining 24/7 operational excellence.
  • Define and implement threat management frameworks that transform reactive security operations into proactive threat hunting and detection, establishing automation standards.
  • 10+ years of security experience with 5+ years leading technical teams, demonstrating ability to build and manage independently
  • Proven ability to define and build security programs from the ground up that accelerate business initiatives, with demonstrated experience establishing team processes, technical frameworks, and cross-functional partnerships
  • Excellence at building automation-first security programs where technology eliminates toil and teams never do the same thing twice
  • Strong judgment in security response, understanding real business impact and calibrating actions proportionally
  • Proven ability to create sustainable team cultures where senior engineers thrive long-term rather than burning out on repetitive tasks
  • Clear understanding of the unique requirements of securing a cloud infrastructure provider
  • Track record of translating technical security work into executive communications and business-aligned metrics
  • Thrives in high-ambiguity environments where you must build structure while executing at startup pace
  • Excitement about leveraging our direct access to state-of-the-art LLMs to revolutionize security operations—imagine AI-powered threat hunting, automated security report generation, and intelligent vulnerability prioritization at a scale only possible when you host the AI infrastructure yourself
  • Experience building D&R programs at AI/ML companies
  • Track record using AI/ML for security operations automation (yes, we know it’s all brand new)
  • Background scaling security during hypergrowth (10x growth phases)
  • Deep technical background allowing hands-on contribution when needed
  • Experience with both build and buy decisions for security tooling
  • Experience driving or providing significant evidence for compliance audits, such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, or FedRAMP
Required Skills
AWS Lambda cross-functional collaboration partnerships communication LLM time management artificial intelligence compliance audit HIPAA
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