Senior 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 most trusted on-demand logistics platforms. The Global Safety and Security team exists to keep it that way, protecting our people, property, operations, brand, and reputation across all our markets.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct hands-on detection engineering for Protective Services, translating threat intelligence, investigative needs, known incidents
• Implement risk-based analytics that reduce unnecessary alert volume, prioritize meaningful threats, and give investigators the context to act
• Build, test, deploy, and operate detection-as-code pipelines that support reliable detection at DoorDash’s scale
• Integrate enterprise telemetry, marketplace activity, physical security events, OSINT, support interactions
• Work with structured and unstructured data, applying rules, statistical methods, machine learning
• Develop and maintain automation and agentic tooling that improve detection efficacy, streamline investigative workflows, and reduce repetitive work

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in detection engineering, alert development, threat hunting, incident response, security operations engineering
• Direct experience building, maintaining, and operating production detection-as-code pipelines using source control, testing, review, deployment
• A proven track record building automation that measurably improves detection accuracy, speed, or investigative quality
• Demonstrated experience building agents or LLM-backed tooling to solve detection or investigation problems, including evaluating quality, reliability
• Strong investigative judgment, including translating incomplete threat information into testable hypotheses, evaluating competing explanations
• Experience building detections across diverse security or behavioral datasets, with the ability to assess data quality

Remote details

• Remote role in the United States

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.