Expel · 6 hours ago
Manager, Detection & Response Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$151K/yr - $219K/yr
5+ years expExpel is a company focused on enhancing security operations and detection capabilities. They are seeking a hands-on leader for their Detection & Response Engineering team to innovate and improve detection strategies and processes, ensuring high-quality outcomes for their customers.
Cloud SecurityCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySaaS
No H1B
Responsibilities
Lead a high-performing team of Detection & Response engineers
Pioneer new, impactful features & technologies aimed at dramatically improving SOC efficacy and efficiency
Work closely with Product Management and Data Science teams to focus on delivering transformative capabilities to the SOC analysts
Ensure the team is continuously improving Expel’s detection and quality controls by creating, validating, and evolving our detection strategies, improving our measurement capabilities, and up-leveling our monitoring abilities
Instill a culture of experimentation, quality, and continuous improvement within the D&R team
Qualification
Required
5+ years of related professional experience
Highly effective team management and project management skills
Senior or higher technical detection engineering expertise within at least one of identity, cloud, or endpoint security paradigms
Substantial understanding of detection engineering and associated technologies and frameworks
Strong knowledge of creating and validating detection strategies for a variety of technology types (e.g. identity, cloud, endpoint)
In-depth knowledge of attack vectors, threat tactics, and attacker techniques
Familiarity with automation, traditional ML, and GenAI concepts and platforms (e.g., LLMs, agents)
Familiarity with large-scale data processing/ETL pipelines and cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Preferred
MDR experience strongly preferred
Benefits
Unlimited PTO (which we model and encourage)
Work location flexibility
Up to 24 weeks of parental leave
Really excellent health benefits
Company
Expel
Expel is a security operations provider that offers managed detection and response, remediation, phishing support, and threat hunting.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$288.8MKey Investors
CapitalG,Paladin Capital GroupCapitalGIndex Ventures
2022-10-03Series E· $31M
2021-11-18Series E· $140.3M
2020-05-13Series D· $50M
Leadership Team
Dave Merkel
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Justin Bajko
Co-founder and VP, Strategy & Business Development
Recent News
New Enterprise Associates
2025-12-31
2025-11-04
Company data provided by crunchbase