Security Engineer, Detect & Respond
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This role pays more than 58% of similar roles. Most pay $145,000–$203,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $189k versus about $174k for comparable roles.
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Pinterest is a visual discovery and inspiration platform where people find ideas for home, style, recipes, and more. It serves hundreds of millions of users worldwide through its image and video pinboard product.
Pinterest currently has 68 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $174,078–$339,078 across 61 roles with salary data.
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The Security Software Engineer II, Detection and Response joins the security team to build and implement detection and response improvements to protect employees and infrastructure. This role involves building alerts, automation workflows, and internal tooling to expand detection capabilities while managing logging pipelines and onboarding new sources. The engineer will respond to alerts during an on-call rotation, hunt for undetected threats, and leverage AI to enhance security engineering efficiency. Key requirements include experience with SIEM queries, threat intelligence, and telemetry sources like EDR, Osquery, and Firewall logs. Candidates must possess knowledge of the attacker lifecycle, networking fundamentals, and OS internals for MacOS, Linux, or Windows. Technical skills in scripting languages like Python, Go, or Ruby are required to develop tools and automate security processes.
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