Detection Engineer, Protective Services (Remote US)

DoorDash connects customers with local businesses for delivery, from restaurants to grocery, retail and its own DashMart stores. DoorDash is one of the world’s leading on-demand logistics platforms. Across DoorDash, Deliveroo, and Wolt, our operations span more than 40 countries, dozens of offices, and tens of thousands of employees.Global Safety and Security helps protect our people, property, operations, brand, and reputation across that footprint, using technology, agility, and a people-first approach

Key responsibilities

• Translate threat intelligence, incidents, investigative needs, and observed behavior into production detections that surface meaningful risk
• Build, test, deploy, tune, and maintain detections and supporting pipelines using source-controlled engineering practices designed to operate
• Correlate signals across enterprise telemetry, marketplace activity, physical security events, OSINT, support interactions
• Apply rules, statistical methods, machine learning, and LLM-based techniques where they improve detection quality, prioritization
• Investigate detections by querying and correlating data, validating hypotheses, and assessing confidence, scope
• Follow detections through investigation and resolution, using outcomes, false positives, missed indicators

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, security operations engineering, technical threat intelligence
• Experience contributing to production detection pipelines using source control, testing, review, deployment, and monitoring practices
• Proficiency in SQL or a security query language and the ability to write maintainable code in Python, Go, or another relevant language
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to explore unfamiliar datasets, assess data quality, troubleshoot across systems
• Experience triaging alerts and investigations, correlating signals across data sources, assessing confidence and scope
• Experience building detections or conducting investigations using security, behavioral, or other relevant telemetry

Remote details

• Remote role in the United States

Salary and benefits

US base salary $130,600 to $192,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.