Senior Detection Engineer, Protective Services
DoorDash, Inc
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This role pays more than 60% of similar roles. Most pay $154,035–$216,250 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $197k versus about $185k for comparable roles.
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DoorDash, Inc. is an American company operating online food ordering and food delivery. It trades under the symbol DASH. With a 56% market share, DoorDash is the largest food delivery platform in the United States.
DoorDash, Inc currently has 97 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $163,800–$240,900 across 96 roles with salary data.
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JOB TITLE: Senior Detection Engineer The Senior Detection Engineer joins the Global Cyber Defense team to create, tune, and maintain the detection lifecycle. This hands-on role involves building coverage across cloud infrastructure, corporate endpoints, identity, and the marketplace to identify abuse and insider-risk patterns. You will develop agentic tooling, implement risk-based analytics to reduce alert volumes, and integrate external threat intelligence into alerting pipelines. Key responsibilities include maintaining detection repositories, producing security signals from structured and unstructured telemetry, and mentoring other engineers. The role requires mastery of SIEM querying using SQL, SPL, and KQL, along with programming in Python and Go. You will also utilize Snowflake, Cortex, and Google SecOps to solve complex security problems. You must translate MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND frameworks into meaningful detection coverage for a three-sided marketplace.
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