Detection and Response Engineer, New Grad (2026)

Security Response Engineer

As a Security Response Engineer at Benchling you'll be joining a team responsible for building a best-in-class security program from the ground up. Our focus is on providing value to the organization by emphasizing real world security and embracing automation and AI. We're looking for engineers who are excited to apply their expertise to our mission of securing some of society's most sensitive data.
Responsibilities

Investigating security events across the organization using your experience and knowledge in multiple security domains (log analysis, digital forensics, or malware analysis).
Creating, deploying and maintaining high signal threat detections based on your understanding of threat actor TTPs.
Enhancing incident response processes through documentation and research into best practices
Coordinating multi-functional incident response during security incidents, assisting partner teams during non-security incidents
Researching new detection mechanisms for attack vectors and techniques relevant to our space and presenting findings to both internal and external audiences.
Evaluating external tooling, developing new automation and tooling.
Qualifications

1+ years experience in Detection and Response (Detection Engineering, Digital Forensics, Incident Response).
Strong communicator with both words and data - you have experience communicating to a wide variety of stakeholders under varying conditions.
Experience as an incident responder responsible for leading multi-team incidents.
Technical innovation skills (you enjoy finding technical solutions, learning new technology, evangelizing security and privacy).
Ability to move forward projects in ambiguous situations through influence and not authority.
Practical experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures.
Comfortable with complexity in the short term but can build towards simplicity in the long term.
Some experience with cloud environments and automation.
Relevant development experience in at least one scripting language, preferably Python.
Benchling welcomes everyone. We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don't discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.