Engineering Manager (Security Detection & Response)

Join Apollo, a leading company in the security industry, as an Engineering Manager for Security Detection & Response. In this hands-on leadership role, you will manage a team of engineers and build and scale the technical systems behind modern security operations. You will be responsible for security incident leadership and response, security observability, detection engineering, automation, and AI. This is a fully remote position that requires excellent asynchronous communication and collaboration skills.

• Lead and manage a team of engineers in building and scaling technical systems for security operations, including detection engineering and automation.
• Own and continuously improve end-to-end detection, investigation, response, and threat intelligence-informed improvement processes.
• Define and evolve security observability and detection strategy, overseeing Panther detections, MITRE ATT&CK-aligned use cases, and response automations.
• 2+ years of people management experience, including hiring, coaching, and performance management, ideally in a remote-first environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills
• 5+ years of experience in Security Detection & Response, Security Engineering, or Incident Response
• Experience with automation, Git-based workflows, CI/CD practices, threat intelligence-informed detections, AI-assisted workflows, and building agents or AI-native workflows for security content, tooling, or response processes
• Strong proficiency in Python for automation, analysis, and internal tooling, with the ability to remain technically credible with engineers
• Experience with cloud-native platforms, security telemetry, and SaaS environments; GCP experience preferred. Familiarity with toolsets similar to Apollo's, including Google Workspace, Okta, GitHub, Slack, Atlassian, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Kandji, Panther, and Snowflake-backed log pipelines, is strongly valued
• Strong hands-on experience with modern SIEM platforms, security observability, detection engineering, log analysis, and complex security investigations; experience with Panther is highly valued
• Experience leading Detection Engineering, Security Engineering, or Security Detection & Response teams in a high-growth cloud or SaaS environment
• Experience applying AI-assisted security tooling to detection, triage, investigation, or response in a production environment
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, threat intelligence workflows, and vulnerability management programs, SLAs, and remediation processes
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, GCED, or cloud security certifications