Senior Detection Engineer

1 month ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
DoorDash

DoorDash

DoorDash empowers small business owners by providing an affordable and convenient platform for local delivery services, primarily focusing on restaurant food delivery.

Air Freight & Logistics
10K-50K
Founded 2012

Description

  • Conduct hands-on detection engineering for custom alerting and risk-based analytics.
  • Integrate external signals such as threat intelligence into alerting pipelines.
  • Develop and maintain agentic tooling to improve detection efficacy and efficiency.
  • Leverage security tooling, logs, and custom telemetry to build detections at scale.
  • Work with structured and unstructured telemetry to produce meaningful security signals.
  • Maintain detection repositories, use case libraries, and content optimization processes.
  • Coordinate with cross-functional internal and external teams on threats targeting DoorDash.
  • Lead projects that improve the security posture across DoorDash brands.
  • Create and maintain standards and documentation to improve service consistency.
  • Mentor and support other engineers within the Cyber Defense organization.
  • Participate in and support the on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in secure coding, alert development, and detection engineering.
  • Direct experience building, maintaining, and operating a detection-as-code pipeline.
  • Proven success building automation that improved detection accuracy, velocity, or quality.
  • Demonstrated experience building agents to solve detection problems.
  • Extensive knowledge of cloud-based and distributed systems.
  • Experience working with global and cross-functional partners, especially incident response, insider risk, and threat hunting teams.
  • Mastery of SIEM querying (SQL, SPL, KQL) and programming languages such as Python and Go.
  • Experience translating MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND, and similar frameworks into detection coverage rationalizations.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience with Snowflake, Cortex, and Google SecOps is preferred.
  • On-call participation is required.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $159,800 to $235,000 USD.
  • Opportunities for equity grants.
  • 401(k) plan with employer matching.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • 11 paid holidays.
  • Disability and basic life insurance.
  • Flexible paid time off/vacation plus paid sick time.
  • Wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, and a mental health program.

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