Hybrid Staff Detection and Response Engineer

at Heidi Health

• Job title: Staff Detection and Response Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sydney, Australia

About the role

• Staff Detection and Response Engineer developing high-signal detections and response automation for AI care solutions. Aiming to enhance security practices for healthcare professionals through innovative technologies.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-signal detections across cloud, infrastructure, and application layers
• Improve logging and audit coverage: what we collect, how we normalise it, how long we retain it, and how we query it
• Develop response automation: playbooks, orchestration, and repeatable containment and remediation steps
• Improve investigative workflows for incidents: evidence handling, timelines, and actionable learnings
• Partner with platform and application teams to add the right security telemetry and abuse signals
• Run threat hunting cycles that generate concrete improvements to detections and controls
• Contribute to the wider security program by closing the loop between incidents, threat models, detection coverage, and preventative controls

Requirements

• Senior/staff-level capability, expressed as autonomy, depth, and ability to scale impact.
• Owns detection and response outcomes end-to-end, including prioritisation and roadmap decisions
• Strong domain understanding of attacker behaviour, audit logging, and detection trade-offs (coverage vs noise)
• Comfortable building systems and workflows that scale (detection-as-code, automation, reliable operations)
• Can work independently during incidents, coordinate across teams, and drive follow-up improvements
• Clear communicator who can translate technical findings into priorities and preventative work.
• Strong security domain knowledge and the specialized skills for this role.

Benefits

• Flexible hybrid working environment, with 3 days in the office.
• A generous personal development budget of $500 per annum
• Learn from some of the best engineers and creatives, joining a diverse team
• Become an owner, with shares (equity) in the company, if Heidi wins, we all win
• The rare chance to create a global impact as you immerse yourself in one of Australia’s leading healthtech startups
• If you have an impact quickly, the opportunity to fast track your startup career!