Sr. Engineer, Intelligence, Detection, and Response

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At Zapier, we’re not just making software—we’re building a platform to help millions of businesses globally scale with automation and AI. Our mission is to make automation work for everyone by delivering products that delight our customers. You’ll collaborate with brilliant people, use the latest tools, and leverage the flexibility of remote work. Your work will directly fuel our customers’ success, and as they grow, so will you.

Job Posted: 08/15/2025

Location: Remote – West Coast (NAMER)

Hi there!

Zapier is on a mission to democratize automation while keeping the security and privacy of millions of users at the forefront. The Intelligence, Detection, and Response (IDR) team plays a central role in protecting our systems, data, and customers.

We’re looking for an IDR Engineer who can lead and grow two connected areas: vulnerability management and detection engineering. In this position, you’ll set the vision for how we identify and remediate risks, create and refine security detections, help manage our SIEM, and step in to run complex incidents. The role combines program leadership with deep technical work, and its impact will reach across multiple teams and functions.

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About You

• Strategic Vision: You can define and deliver a program from the ground up, setting direction, executing plans, and tracking results.

• Collaboration: You collaborate with teams across engineering, platform, and security to close gaps and strengthen our defensive posture.

• Technical Skills: You write Python code, craft and tune detection logic, and work hands-on with SIEM platforms to improve coverage and accuracy.

• Eye for Improvement: You design processes that work across the company, automate repetitive tasks, and use metrics to guide improvements.

• Incident Experience: You can lead complex incident investigations, coordinating response and ensuring learnings turn into long-term fixes.

• Good Communicator: You tailor your message for engineers, leaders, and other stakeholders to make security actions clear and achievable.

Remote-Ready: You use asynchronous communication effectively with a globally-distributed team, and know how to keep projects moving without constant meetings.

Things You’ll Do

• Develop the vulnerability management program: setting strategy, selecting tools, and building workflows for identification, prioritization, and remediation.

• Write and maintain high-quality detections, including Python-based scripts, enrichment logic, and automated alert pipelines.

• Help manage and improve our SIEM, ensuring detections are relevant, accurate, and cover the right areas.

• Run and contribute to security incidents, taking the lead on critical events and supporting investigations from start to finish.

• Automate key operational tasks related to vulnerability tracking, detection tuning, and response actions.

• Engineer solutions that provide teams with tools, dashboards, and clear guidance to enable faster and more effective remediation.

Report on progress with metrics like time to remediation, detection-to-response speed, and alert fidelity.

Why You’ll Love This Role

You’ll play a pivotal role in how Zapier finds and fixes vulnerabilities while also sharpening our ability to detect and respond to threats in real time. You’ll work with smart, supportive teammates who value both strategy and execution, and you’ll have the freedom to design solutions that make a lasting difference in our security posture.

How to Apply

At Zapier, we believe that diverse perspectives and experiences make us better, which is why we have a non-standard application process designed to promote inclusion and equity. We're looking for the best fit for each of our roles, regardless of the type of companies in your background, so we encourage you to apply even if your skills and experiences don’t exactly match the job description. All we ask is that you answer a few in-depth questions in our application that would typically be asked at the start of an interview process. This helps speed things up by letting us get to know you and your skillset a bit better right out of the gate. Please be sure to answer each question; the resume and CV fields are optional.

Education is not a requirement for our roles; however, if you receive an offer, you will need to include your most recent educational experience as part of our background check process.

After you apply, you are going to hear back from us—even if we don’t see an immediate fit with our team. In fact, throughout the process, we strive to never go more than seven days without letting you know the status of your application. We know we’ll make mistakes from time to time, so if you ever have questions about where you stand or about the process, just ask your recruiter!

Zapier is an equal-opportunity employer and we're excited to work with talented and empathetic people of all identities. Zapier does not discriminate based on someone's identity in any aspect of hiring or employment as required by law and in line with our commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity. Our code of conduct provides a beacon for the kind of company we strive to be, and we celebrate our differences because those differences are what allow us to make a product that serves a global user base. Zapier will consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.

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Zapier is committed to inclusion. As part of this commitment, Zapier welcomes applications from individuals with disabilities and will work to provide reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodations are needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected].

Application Deadline:

The anticipated application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later, or if the position is filled.

Even though we’re an all-remote company, we still need to be thoughtful about where we have Zapiens working. Check out this resource for a list of countries where we currently cannot have Zapiens permanently working.