Senior Detection Engineer, Protective Services

🔥 23 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $159.8k - $235k / year

⏰ Full Time

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DoorDash

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10,000+ employees

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

Food & Beverage • Logistics • eCommerce

DoorDash is a leading food delivery service that connects customers with local businesses and restaurants. By empowering local economies, DoorDash facilitates the growth and success of restaurants and retailers, offering a flexible work environment for its employees. The company emphasizes innovation and aims to redefine the local commerce experience while providing extensive benefits and opportunities for team members across various career areas.

📋 Description

• Conduct hands-on detection engineering for Protective Services • Translate threat intelligence, investigative needs, incidents, and observed behavior into custom alerting • Implement risk-based analytics to reduce alert volume and prioritize meaningful threats • Build, test, deploy, and operate detection-as-code pipelines • Integrate enterprise telemetry, marketplace activity, physical security events, OSINT, support interactions, and external signals • Apply rules, statistical methods, machine learning, and LLM-backed techniques to detection and investigation • Develop and maintain automation and agentic tooling • Own the detection lifecycle from hypothesis and data validation through deployment, tuning, measurement, and retirement • Maintain detection repositories and use case libraries • Conduct technical triage and investigations and correlate signals across sources • Follow detections through investigation, response, and mitigation • Coordinate with internal and external partners on threats targeting DoorDash • Lead projects strengthening protective capabilities across DoorDash brands • Create and maintain engineering standards, testing practices, and documentation • Mentor and support other engineers through technical reviews and collaboration • Participate in the on-call rotation and support significant protective cases • Report to the Engineering Manager, Protective Services

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in detection engineering, alert development, threat hunting, incident response, security operations engineering, technically oriented threat intelligence, or software engineering applied to security problems • Direct experience building, maintaining, and operating production detection-as-code pipelines using source control, testing, review, deployment, and monitoring • Proven track record building automation that improves detection accuracy, speed, or investigative quality • Experience building agents or LLM-backed tooling for detection or investigation problems, including evaluating quality, reliability, and failure modes • Strong investigative judgment and ability to translate incomplete threat information into testable hypotheses • Experience building detections across diverse security or behavioral datasets • Familiarity with marketplace activity, physical access, alarms, video, OSINT, or support-interaction telemetry • Extensive knowledge of cloud-based and distributed systems • Experience working with global and cross-functional partners • Mastery of SQL or SIEM query languages such as SPL or KQL • Proficiency writing maintainable code in Python, Go, or another relevant language • Experience using MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND, or similar frameworks • Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills • Sound discretion with sensitive information • Commitment to mentoring other engineers • A bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience • Experience with Snowflake, Cortex, or Google SecOps is preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity grants • 401(k) plan with employer matching • 16 weeks of paid parental leave • Wellness benefits • Commuter benefits match • Flexible paid time off/vacation • Paid sick leave; salaried roles receive 80 hours per year • Medical, dental, and vision benefits • 11 paid holidays • Disability insurance • Basic life insurance • Family-forming assistance • Mental health program • Premium healthcare • Wellness expense reimbursement • Accommodation support for applicants