Senior Detection Engineer

Role Description

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. You’ll work closely with our data pipelines team, incident response, insider risk, and threat intelligence teams to make the most effective detection content to detect threats as quickly as possible.

• Conduct hands-on detection engineering for custom alerting, to include implementing risk-based analytics to reduce alert volumes and promote high-fidelity alert content.
• 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.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams, internally and externally, on threats targeting DoorDash.
• Participate in and lead projects that improve the security posture of all DoorDash brands.
• Create and maintain standards and documentation to improve service consistency.
• Mentor and uplevel other engineers within the Cyber Defense organization.
• Participate in and support our on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Mastery of SIEM querying (sql, spl, kql) and programming languages (python, go, etc).
• Experience translating MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND, and other industry frameworks into meaningful rationalizations of detection coverage.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with Snowflake, Cortex, Google SecOps is preferred.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including a 401(k) plan with employer matching.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Wellness benefits and commuter benefits match.
• Paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Disability and basic life insurance.
• Family-forming assistance and a mental health program.

Company Description

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.

DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.