Senior Detection Engineer

🕒 August 24

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $196k - $207k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Instacart

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 $232M Venture Round on 2021-11

Food & Beverage • Logistics • eCommerce

Instacart is a company that offers a flexible approach to work while transforming the grocery industry. It provides an essential service by delivering groceries and household goods to customers' doors in as little as 30 minutes. Instacart offers safe and flexible earning opportunities to personal shoppers and tackles challenges such as rerouting deliveries during snowstorms and connecting customers with coupons and deals. It aims to be the operating system for the grocery industry, thus helping customers save time for other activities. Instacart emphasizes diversity, equity, and belonging in its work culture.

📋 Description

• Develop, tune, document, and maintain detection logic across endpoint, cloud, container, and SaaS log sources • Assist in cyber forensic investigations across varied log sources • Optimize log ingestion pipelines and telemetry collection for actionable security data while managing volume and cost • Design and build SOAR playbooks and automation workflows for detection triage, enrichment, and response • Mentor junior security analysts and detection engineers on threat hunting, detection logic, and investigation techniques • Hunt for novel attacker techniques and improve detection coverage, quality, and scale • Collaborate with Engineering, Red Team, Incident Response, Fraud, and Trust & Safety

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in a detection engineering, incident response, or offensive security role • Experience with one or more public cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP • Deep understanding of attacker TTPs across modern zero trust environments, including identity compromise, token theft, and abuse of trust boundaries • Proficient understanding of macOS internals and telemetry for identifying macOS-specific threats • Experience implementing detection-as-code workflows, including version control, peer review, automated testing, and CI/CD deployment pipelines • Basic proficiency with Python, Golang, or other programming languages • Relevant certifications such as GCFA, GCFE, GNFA, GREM, OSCP, GCIA, or similar • Background in offensive security or red teaming • Knowledge of machine learning for threat detection

🏖️ Benefits

• New hire equity grant • Annual refresh grants • Flexible choice of work location (home, office, or coffee shop) • Regular in-person events • Market-competitive compensation and benefits