Senior Security Engineer, Detection and Response

Monarch Money

2d • $160,000 - $210,000 • Remote

About The Position

Monarch is hiring a Senior Security Engineer, Detection and Response to join our Security team within Foundations — the first dedicated hire for this function. Reporting to the TLM of the Corporate & Infrastructure Security squad, you will build detection, automation, and response capabilities while working with IT to harden the tools people use every day. This role has an AI mandate, expecting the candidate to bring an AI-first mindset to security engineering, using LLM-augmented workflows to accelerate detection authoring, automate phishing triage, analyze logs, and build internal tooling. The role also involves governing enterprise AI platforms. The candidate will join a lean, senior security team with existing strong foundations (SOC 2 Type 2 complete, best-in-class tooling) and will build the next layer of security maturity. This is an opportunity to help define how security engineering works at a fast-growing fintech protecting real financial data for hundreds of thousands of users.

Requirements

• 5+ years in security engineering with demonstrated depth in detection & incident response and corporate security, using SIEM and in collaboration with MDR providers
• Detection engineering and incident response experience — ability to build and maintain detection infrastructure, workflows, author detections, triage alerts, and run security incidents end-to-end
• Hands-on experience administering enterprise AI platform controls (Claude Enterprise or OpenAI Enterprise admin — SSO/SCIM, audit logging, managed settings, usage governance)
• Hands-on experience securing SaaS and working with Iru (Kandji) or equivalent MDM and Okta workforce identity — understanding security hardening, device trust, and IAM policy even if not the primary administrator
• Integrated AI fluency — actively uses AI tools to accelerate security work, build automation, and ship internal tooling

Nice To Haves

• Cloudflare Zero Trust / ZTNA experience (Access, Gateway, WARP, Tunnel)
• DLP program experience (Cyberhaven, Nightfall, or similar)
• SaaS security posture tooling experience (Nudge Security, Push Security, or similar)
• Fintech or financial services background
• Relevant certifications: CISSP, CCSP, GCFA, CrowdStrike certifications

Responsibilities

• Build a detection engineering program and supporting infrastructure
• Author and maintain detections and build alerting pipelines that feed triage and incident response
• Investigate and respond to security incidents
• Drive security configuration and policy for enterprise AI platforms (Claude Enterprise, OpenAI)
• Use AI daily to transform how detection, response and corporate security operates — building LLM-augmented workflows for detection, triage, automation, and internal tooling
• Partner with IT to harden SaaS platforms and endpoints (Iru/Kandji MDM, CrowdStrike Falcon EDR)
• Mature DLP program covering SaaS, email, endpoints, and AI prompt exfiltration paths

Benefits

• Work wherever you want! As a fully remote company with no central office, we want you to work wherever you are happiest and most productive. Whether that’s out of your home, a co-working space, or elsewhere.
• Competitive cash and equity compensation in a hyper growth, early stage company 🚀.
• Stipend to set-up your ideal working environment.
• Competitive Benefit Plans for employees based on your location (e.g. in the US we offer: Medical, dental and vision benefits and the ability to contribute to a 401k plan).
• Unlimited PTO.
• 3 day weekend every month! We take off the “First Friday” every month to focus on rest, recuperation, or just having fun!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed