Threat Detection and Response Engineering Senior Manager
We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager - Threat Detection and Response to lead and evolve our threat detection, threat intelligence, and response capabilities across our organization. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, detection, and response, with a focus on building resilient, scalable systems that reduce risk and enable rapid, high-confidence decision making during security events. You will operate as a player–coach, leading a team of engineers while remaining hands-on in architecture, tooling, and incident leadership.
- Lead and develop a high-performing team across detection engineering, threat intelligence, and incident response
- Own detection and response outcomes end-to-end, including signal quality, telemetry coverage, and alert fidelity
- Act as incident commander for high-severity events, driving decisive, structured response under ambiguity
- Build and scale automation-first and AI-assisted workflows to reduce MTTD/MTTR and improve decision quality
- Establish and operate against clear SLIs/SLOs and KPIs for detection and response effectiveness
- Drive continuous improvement of detection and response capabilities through engineering roadmaps and measurable outcomes
- Build and ensure readiness for high-stakes events through preparation and repeatable processes
- Experience leading engineering teams in detection, response, threat intelligence, or security engineering
- Proven experience owning high-severity incident response in complex environments
- Deep understanding of SIEM, EDR, telemetry pipelines, and detection ecosystems
- Experience building automation and distributed systems for security operations at scale
- Strong cloud expertise (e.g., AWS, GCP), including identity, infrastructure, and logging
- Familiarity with modern attack techniques, threat modeling, and adversary behavior
- Experience leveraging AI/ML (e.g., LLMs) to enhance detection, triage, or investigation workflows
- Ability to operate in high-scale, high-availability environments with a focus on resilience
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences
- medical, vision, and dental insurance
- life insurance
- disability insurance
- a 401(k) matching program
- paid personal time off
- 14 paid company holidays
- paid sick time
- annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance)
- commuter benefits
- pet insurance
FanDuel Group is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the North America, FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media, including FanDuel, Stardust Casino and TVG. The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia. FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).
