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Alchemy
Full time
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USA
11/05/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Triage alerts, hunt for suspicious activity, and investigate threats across cloud, corporate, identity, endpoint, and production environments.
Build and tune detections, onboard telemetry, maintain log pipelines, and test detection rules against attacks and benign activity.
Participate in security on-call and incident response, including scoping, containment, recovery, evidence preservation, and post-incident improvements.
Automate evidence collection, alert enrichment, investigation timelines, and response preparation using AI-assisted workflows.
Evaluate AI-assisted workflows for false positives, missed threats, adversarial inputs, failure modes, and traceable evidence.
Partner with Infrastructure and IT on vulnerability remediation, cloud and host hardening, identity controls, and attack-surface monitoring.
Help secure AI-agent operations through controls for identities, credentials, tool access, audit logging, and suspicious-agent behavior detection.
Share reusable code, runbooks, investigation skills, documentation, and evaluation cases while pairing with and mentoring teammates.
Track detection coverage, alert quality, investigation effort, response time, and remediation progress to improve defensive outcomes.

Requirements

Hands-on experience spanning security operations, detection engineering, threat hunting, and incident response.
Strong scripting and software-building ability, especially in Python, with experience using APIs, version control, tests, and production automation.
Experience with a SIEM such as Panther, Splunk, or an equivalent platform, including detection logic and log analysis.
Working knowledge of cloud security, identity, endpoint telemetry, networking, and Linux systems.
Experience building and using AI-assisted tools in security or adjacent engineering work, including validating outputs, handling failures, and protecting sensitive information.
Sound incident judgment, including separating hypotheses from findings, preserving evidence, and deciding when to escalate or contain.
Evidence of improving teammates’ effectiveness through tools, mentoring, code review, or documentation without management authority.
Clear written communication and willingness to own urgent investigations and follow-through.
Helpful experience with AWS, Kubernetes, bare-metal infrastructure, detection-as-code, SOAR workflows, digital forensics, threat intelligence, attack simulation, AI-agent security, blockchain infrastructure, or sensitive-key environments.

Benefits

Private health insurance.
Gym reimbursement.
Commuter benefits.
Flexible time off.
In-office group meals.
Learning and development stipend.
Company-sponsored conferences and events.
Books and audiobook subscription with Bookster.

Salary: $160k - $180k/yr

Alchemy

Alchemy transforms complex data into actionable insights, empowering businesses to innovate and thrive. By blending advanced analytics with intuitive design, we help organizations uncover hidden opportunities and streamline decision-making. Our collaborative approach ensures each solution is tail...

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