Senior Detection Engineer

DoorDash

Remote regions

US

Salary range

$159,800–$235,000/yr

Benefits

Unlimited PTO 16w maternity 16w paternity

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About the Role:

  • The senior detection engineer is part of the detection engineering team that creates, tunes, maintains, and improves the detection lifecycle.
  • This hands-on role is at the forefront of agentic detection engineering in a rapidly maturing security function.

What You’ll Do:

  • Conduct hands-on detection engineering for custom alerting, integrating threat intelligence and building agentic tooling.
  • Work with structured and unstructured telemetry to produce meaningful security signals across cloud, endpoints, and marketplace.

What We’re Looking For:

  • 7+ years of experience in secure coding, alert development, and detection engineering.
  • Direct experience building, maintaining, and operating a detection-as-code pipeline.
  • Mastery of SIEM querying and programming languages like Python and Go.

Compensation and Benefits:

  • Base salary range $159,800 - $235,000 USD per year, plus equity grants.
  • Comprehensive benefits including 401(k) matching, 16 weeks paid parental leave, medical, dental, vision, and more.

DoorDash

DoorDash is a technology and logistics company that enables door-to-door delivery, empowering local economies. We grow rapidly and constantly change, with a diverse and inclusive team committed to supporting employees' happiness and well-being.

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