Senior Detection Engineer

DoorDash, Inc

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$159,800–$235,000 / yr
Posted
68 days ago
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About DoorDash, Inc

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.

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TL;DR · Senior Detection Engineer

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.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain a detection-as-code pipeline to create, tune, and improve the detection lifecycle.
  • Develop custom alerts using risk-based analytics to reduce alert volumes and increase high-fidelity content.
  • Integrate external threat intelligence signals into alerting pipelines tailored to specific security use cases.
  • Build and maintain agentic tooling to increase the efficacy and efficiency of detection processes.
  • Leverage security logs and custom telemetry to build scalable detections across cloud, endpoint, and marketplace platforms.
  • Maintain detection repositories, use case libraries, and perform routine content optimization.
  • Create and maintain standards and documentation to ensure service consistency across the security organization.
  • Participate in and support the team's on-call rotation.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience in secure coding, alert development, and detection engineering.
  • Direct experience building, maintaining, and operating a detection-as-code pipeline.
  • Proven track record of building automation to improve detection accuracy, velocity, or quality.
  • Demonstrated experience building agents to solve detection problems effectively and efficiently.
  • Extensive knowledge of cloud-based and distributed systems.
  • Mastery of SIEM querying (SQL, SPL, KQL) and programming languages like Python or Go.
  • Experience translating MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND frameworks into detection coverage rationalizations.
  • Experience with Snowflake, Cortex, and Google SecOps (preferred).

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