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Detection Engineer, Protective Services

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Detection Engineer, Protective Services in USA

  • DoorDash
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Translate threat intelligence, incidents, investigative needs, and observed behavior into production detections that reduce noise and provide actionable context.
  • Build, test, deploy, tune, and maintain detections and supporting pipelines using reliable source-controlled engineering practices.
  • Correlate enterprise, marketplace, physical security, OSINT, support, and other telemetry to identify and prioritize potential threats.
  • Apply rules, statistical methods, machine learning, and LLM-based techniques to improve detection quality, prioritization, and investigative context.
  • Investigate detections by querying data, validating hypotheses, and assessing confidence, scope, and potential impact with Protective Services partners.
  • Continuously improve detection logic, tooling, and workflows using investigation outcomes, false positives, missed indicators, and investigative friction.
  • Contribute to technical reviews, testing, documentation, standards, and automation that improve detection reliability and maintainability.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and support major investigations while communicating the confidence and limitations of available signals.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, security operations engineering, technical threat intelligence, or software engineering applied to security problems.
  • Experience contributing to production detection pipelines with source control, testing, review, deployment, and monitoring practices.
  • Proficiency in SQL or a security query language and ability to write maintainable code in Python, Go, or another relevant language.
  • Strong analytical skills, including exploring unfamiliar datasets, assessing data quality, troubleshooting across systems, and developing testable detection hypotheses.
  • Experience triaging alerts and investigations, correlating signals, assessing confidence and scope, and communicating evidence clearly.
  • Experience building detections or conducting investigations with security, behavioral, or other relevant telemetry.
  • Experience using automation or analytics to improve detection and investigation workflows; familiarity with machine learning or LLM-based techniques is preferred.
  • Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK or D3FEND for organizing detection coverage and identifying gaps.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to handle sensitive information appropriately.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with Snowflake, Cortex, or Google SecOps is preferred.

Benefits

  • 401(k) plan with employer matching.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off, and paid sick leave where required by law.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program.
  • Salaried employees receive flexible paid time off or vacation plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year; hourly accrual details are also provided.
  • The position is expected to be filled by 28 November 2026 and includes participation in an on-call rotation.

Salary: $131k - $192k/yr

DoorDash

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