Detection & Response Engineering Manager

Detection & Response Engineering Manager

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

At Beyond Finance, we've made it our mission to help everyday Americans escape the endless cycle of crippling debt and step into a brighter financial future. Through compassionate, individualized care, a culture focused on compliance and ethics, supportive user‑centric technology, and customized financial solutions, we've helped over 1 million clients on their path to a brighter future.

While we're proud of what we've already accomplished, we're searching for new collaborators to help us get to the next level! If you're looking to join a forward‑thinking, rapidly growing organization with helping people as its number one goal, we want to hear from you.

You'll own detection and response for our environment: monitoring, triage, and incident response across our SaaS applications, user workstations, and AWS. You'll stay hands‑on, coaching and growing the team while working in the detections, pipelines, and investigations yourself. You're inheriting an established function with room to mature, and a mandate to build: as we bring automation and AI into security operations, you'll take new capabilities from idea to production.

• Security operations: monitoring, triage, and incident response across our SaaS applications, user workstations, and AWS, including signals from insider risk. You lead the response when an incident is confirmed, and you share the team's on‑call rotation.
• Detection engineering: own the detection lifecycle, write, tune, and retire detections, map coverage to MITRE ATT&CK, and reduce false positives.
• Logging pipeline: ingest, normalize, enrich, and route security telemetry through APIs and connectors.
• Detection‑as‑code: move the team's detections into version control with testing and peer review, the way we already manage cloud and policy as code.
• New capabilities: stand up net‑new detection and response platforms and capabilities, owning them from architecture through production.
• Automation and AI in the SOC: apply them to triage, alert summarization, workflow orchestration, and response recommendations, keeping a human in the loop. Turn repetitive work into reusable tooling.
• Reporting: brief security and IT leadership on incidents, detection coverage, and program maturity.

• 7+ years in security operations, detection, or incident response.
• You can take a broad roadmap and prioritize independently, breaking the big picture into concrete, sequenced work for you and the team.
• You write your own scripts and build detection logic as code.
• A track record of taking projects from prototype to production, including the architecture and the hands‑on build.
• Depth in SIEM, EDR, and SOAR; we use Datadog Cloud SIEM, ingesting logs from across our platforms, including AWS.
• Experience mentoring or leading engineers or analysts; formal management tenure is not required.
• You can identify which KPIs apply where and set acceptable thresholds for each, across measures such as detection coverage, false‑positive rate, MTTR, and automation rate.

• Certifications such as CISSP, the GIAC detection/IR family, or OSCP.
• Experience applying AI or LLMs to security work.
• Awareness of AI‑specific risks such as prompt injection and agent trust boundaries.
• Hands‑on threat hunting experience.
• Purple teaming or adversary emulation to validate detections.
• Fintech or other regulated‑industry experience, and familiarity with PCI DSS, SOC 2, or GLBA.
• Experience securing cloud‑native and containerized environments.

$150,000 - $180,000 USD

And this role is eligible for additional incentives, including an annual bonus.

While you make a difference for others, we’ll work to make a difference for you, providing an uplifting, collaborative work environment and benefits that reflect your value to us. For eligible full‑time employees, we offer:

• Considerable employer contributions for health, dental, and vision programs
• Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid parental leave
• 401(k) matching program

And finally, our team spirit and culture! We cultivate an environment of community, connection, and belonging across our entire organization.