Senior Detection Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Perform hands-on detection engineering to create custom alerting solutions.

• Apply risk-based analytics to minimize alert volumes while enhancing the quality of alert content.

• Incorporate external signals, such as threat intelligence, into alerting pipelines tailored for specific use cases.

• Design and sustain agentic tools to boost detection effectiveness and efficiency.

• Utilize security tools, logs, and custom telemetry to develop scalable detections.

• Analyze both structured and unstructured telemetry to generate significant security signals.

• Manage detection repositories and maintain use case libraries.

• Perform regular content optimization.

• Collaborate with both internal and external cross-functional teams to address threats aimed at DoorDash.

• Engage in and lead initiatives that enhance the security stance of all DoorDash brands.

• Establish and uphold standards and documentation to enhance service consistency.

• Guide and nurture other engineers within the Cyber Defense organization.

• Participate in and assist with the on-call rotation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in secure coding, alert development, and detection engineering.

• Hands-on experience in building, maintaining, and operating a detection-as-code pipeline.

• Proven ability to develop automation that significantly enhances detection accuracy, speed, or quality.

• Demonstrated capability in creating agents that address detection challenges.

• In-depth understanding of cloud-based and distributed systems.

• Experience collaborating with global and cross-functional partners, particularly in incident response, insider risk, and threat hunting teams.

• Expertise in SIEM querying languages: SQL, SPL, and KQL.

• Proficient in programming languages such as Python and Go.

• Experience in translating MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND, and other industry frameworks into rational analyses of detection coverage.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication, presentation, and stakeholder management abilities.

• Familiarity with Snowflake, Cortex, and Google SecOps is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity grants.

• 401(k) plan with employer matching.

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Wellness benefits.

• Commuter benefits match.

• Paid time off.

• Paid sick leave.

• Medical benefits.

• Dental benefits.

• Vision benefits.

• 11 paid holidays.

• Disability insurance.

• Basic life insurance.

• Family-forming assistance.

• Mental health program.

• Flexible paid time off/vacation for salaried roles.

• 80 hours of paid sick time per year for salaried roles.

• Premium healthcare.

• Wellness expense reimbursement.

• Accommodation support.