Senior Manager of Detection Response

Who you are

• A highly collaborative, low-ego approach to working across security, engineering, and other partner teams
• Deep technical credibility and operational instincts, with a track record of building or scaling a detection engineering or security operations program
• Sound understanding of modern adversary tradecraft, with experience turning threat intelligence into practical detection strategies, proactive hunts, and response actions
• Experience extending a lean team's coverage through managed services or security vendors, including selecting partners and holding them accountable to measurable outcomes
• Track record leading incident command for security incidents involving multiple stakeholders, from working teams to executive leadership
• Excellent problem-solving instincts and comfort operating with ambiguity, including the judgment to think beyond established playbooks when a situation calls for it, and a steady, structured presence during active incidents
• Familiarity applying automation or AI/ML techniques to security operations
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including reporting to executive audiences

What the job involves

• Strava's Security team protects the platform, the data, and the trust of more than 200 million athletes worldwide
• As threats against consumer platforms grow more sophisticated, this team is responsible for detecting, investigating, and responding to them quickly and confidently
• We're looking for a Senior Manager, Detection & Response to own and scale this function, reporting to the CISO
• You'll set the strategy and drive execution for security monitoring, incident response, recovery, and post-incident improvement covering both our corporate environment and the Strava product
• You'll build and manage a small team of engineers, decide how to extend that team's reach through automation and strategic partners, and partner closely with Infrastructure, Product Security, Enterprise Security, IT, and Engineering to make sure detection and response capabilities are built into our systems by design
• This is a role for a technically hands-on leader who's naturally curious and comfortable digging in without all the facts, in a high-growth environment
• Lead incident response and security operations, acting as the senior escalation point and incident commander during active investigations
• Build and mature detection engineering across cloud, endpoint, and application layers (Strava product surface), continuously raising detection quality and coverage
• Own the security logging and telemetry pipeline, ensuring the right data is collected, normalized, and usable for detection
• Shape the operating model for the function, deciding what we build in-house versus deliver through managed services and strategic vendors, and holding those partners accountable for measurable security outcomes
• Leverage outside threat intel to proactively improve detection
• Modernize the SOC with automation and AI to increase coverage and speed up response
• Manage incident playbooks, on-call and escalation paths, and run tabletop exercises
• Deliver clear, executive-ready reporting on incident trends, coverage, and program maturity
• Build, manage and coach a small team of detection and response engineers
• Apply threat intelligence and a working knowledge of adversary tradecraft to drive proactive detection and threat hunting

Benefits

• Stock options
• 100% company paid benefits for employees and families
• Flexible paid time off
• $2,000 annual professional development stipend
• Paid time off for volunteering
• 401(k) plan - with company matching
• $1000 annual gear stipend
• $500 annual gym or coaching reimbursement
• On-site fitness rooms with showers, lockers, and towel service
• Weekly team workouts – including remote employees
• Safe and secure bike storage on-site
• Weekly all hands meetings
• Employee resource groups
• Anti-racism nonprofit company matching program
• Free lunch on Wednesdays on-site
• Regular team happy hours
• Team offsites and company retreats
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Generous industry discounts on gear and activities
• Race entries to events we sponsor
• Snacks and stocked kitchens on-site
• Strava gear