Detection & Response Engineering Manager

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Chicago, IL, USA
Hybrid
150K-180K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
​​We’re a forward-looking fintech company helping people to escape a vicious cycle of debt and reach financial freedom.
The Role
Owns security monitoring, detection engineering, logging pipelines, and incident response across SaaS applications, workstations, and AWS. Leads detection lifecycle management, detection-as-code adoption, SIEM/SOAR capabilities, automation, and AI-assisted SOC workflows. The role remains hands-on while mentoring engineers or analysts, building platforms from architecture through production, conducting investigations, reducing false positives, and reporting security metrics and program maturity to leadership.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.


The Role

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.

What You'll Own
  • 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.
What You Bring
  • 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 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.
Nice to Have
  • 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.

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The base annual salary range is listed below. This role is eligible for additional incentives, including an annual bonus.

Base Salary Range
$150,000$180,000 USD

Why Join Us?

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
  • Merit advancement opportunities
  • Career development & training

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

Beyond Finance does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job positions.  No fee will be paid to their parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to Beyond Finance employees or the Beyond Finance HR team.  No placement fee will be paid to any third party unless such a request has been made by the Beyond HR team.

Skills Required

  • 7+ years of experience in security operations, detection, or incident response
  • Ability to independently prioritize a broad roadmap and sequence work for the team
  • Ability to write scripts and build detection logic as code
  • Experience taking projects from prototype to production, including architecture and hands-on implementation
  • Deep experience with SIEM and SOAR; Datadog Cloud SIEM experience is applicable
  • Experience mentoring or leading engineers or analysts
  • Ability to define relevant security KPIs and acceptable thresholds, including detection coverage, false-positive rate, MTTR, and automation rate
  • CISSP, GIAC detection or incident response certification, or OSCP
  • Experience applying AI or LLMs to security operations
  • Awareness of AI-specific risks, including prompt injection and agent trust boundaries
  • Hands-on threat hunting experience
  • Purple teaming or adversary emulation experience
  • Fintech or regulated-industry experience and familiarity with PCI DSS, SOC 2, or GLBA
  • Experience securing cloud-native and containerized environments

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Beyond Finance Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time off is presented as expansive, including “unlimited” PTO for salaried employees, an accrual program for hourly staff, and a set of paid holidays.
  • Retirement Support Retirement benefits are positioned as a strength through a 401(k) match with immediate eligibility and vesting and a clearly defined match formula.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave is clearly outlined, with dedicated weeks for birthing and non‑birthing parents plus additional PTO tied to birth, adoption, or foster placement.

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The Company
HQ: Houston, TX
2,200 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Grow along with our rapidly expanding organization and help us build and serve up customized, unique technological and client service solutions! We’re pushing the boundaries of what a debt consolidation company can offer. But our mission to uplift isn’t limited to our clients — we know our people deserve to be elevated to their highest potential through growth opportunities, a healthy work-life balance, and continued support.

Why Work With Us

Our people make a real impact — on our organization as a whole, but also on the lives of thousands of Americans. Beyond Finance offers you the chance to have your voice heard, help people, and grow in a collaborative, uplifting environment.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Beyond Finance operates on a hybrid model. Employees work onsite 2–4 days per week, depending on specific team requirements. We believe working together in person drives better communication, collaboration, and results.

Typical time on-site: Flexible
HQHouston, TX
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