Senior Detection Engineer Job at DoorDash (Remote US)

DoorDash connects customers with local businesses for delivery, from restaurants to grocery, retail and its own DashMart stores. The senior detection engineer is part of the larger detection engineering team that creates, tunes, maintains, and improves the detection lifecycle. This hands-on role is at the forefront of agentic detection engineering of a rapidly maturing security function.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct hands-on detection engineering for custom alerting, to include implementing risk-based analytics to reduce alert volumes
• Integrate external signals such as threat intelligence into alerting pipelines tailored to specific use cases
• Develop and maintain agentic tooling to increase detection efficacy and efficiency
• Leverage security tooling, logs, and custom telemetry to build detections at scale
• Work with structured and unstructured telemetry to produce meaningful security signals
• Maintain detection repositories, use case libraries, and conduct routine content optimization

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in secure coding, alert development, and detection engineering
• Direct experience building, maintaining, and operating a detection-as-code pipeline
• A proven track record building automation that measurably improved detection accuracy, velocity, or quality
• Demonstrated experience building agents to effectively and efficiently solve detection problems
• Extensive knowledge of cloud based and distributed systems
• Experience working with global and cross-functional partners, especially incident response, insider risk, and threat hunting teams

Remote details

• Remote role in the United States
• This role reports to the Senior Manager, Cyber Defense located in the United States and participation in an on-call rotation is required for this role

Salary and benefits

US base salary $159,800 to $235,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.