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Pinterest
Full time
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USA
11/10/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Serve as a senior technical resource for the Detection & Response Team.
Define capability gaps, strategy, and roadmap for detection and response.
Build detection capabilities, alerts, and automation workflows for security threats.
Manage logging pipelines and infrastructure and onboard new logging sources.
Develop and maintain internal detection and response tooling.
Respond to alerts, lead incidents, and participate in an on-call rotation.
Conduct threat hunting and collaborate with security and engineering partners.
Use AI to improve the speed, quality, accuracy, and coverage of security engineering work.

Requirements

Broad and deep knowledge of intrusion detection, incident response, attacker lifecycles, attack techniques, and detection methods.
Hands-on experience writing SIEM queries for alerting, response, and threat hunting.
Experience applying threat intelligence to improve detection capabilities.
Familiarity with EDR, Osquery, firewall logs, and other telemetry sources.
Understanding of networking technologies, network security, and TCP/IP fundamentals.
Depth in macOS internals or Linux/UNIX or Windows internals, including persistence and privilege escalation techniques.
Scripting or automation experience with languages such as Python, Go, or Ruby.
Ability to use, test, source-check, validate, and critically evaluate AI-assisted work.
High integrity, ownership, and accountability when protecting sensitive data and delivering security outcomes.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

Remote position that can be based anywhere in the country.
In-office collaboration required 1–2 times every six months.
Not eligible for relocation assistance.
Eligible for equity and Pinterest benefits; benefits details are provided through the company’s benefits information.

Salary: $177k - $365k/yr

Pinterest is a visual inspiration platform where 482 million monthly active users worldwide come to search, save, and shop the best ideas in the world for all of life’s moments. Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.

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