Senior Detection Engineer building detection-as-code pipelines and agentic tooling for DoorDash's cyber defense team. Covers cloud, endpoints, identity, and marketplace threat detection using Snowflake and SIEM querying. 7+ years detection engineering and cloud systems experience required.
At DoorDash, including international brands Deliveroo and Wolt, weâre building the industryâs most scalable and reliable delivery network to support our three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and Dashers. Global Cyber Defense is a highly talented and globally distributed team that covers response, intelligence, insider risk, threat hunting, automation, and detection engineering.
We exist to keep our brands safe for the Dashers, merchants, and consumers who depend on us. Our mission is to detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats with speed and precision, while continuously hardening our defenses through automation, AI, and cross-regional collaboration.
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. Youâll 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.
Detection at DoorDash spans more than the corporate estate. Youâll build coverage across cloud infrastructure, corporate endpoints and identity, and the marketplace itself - where consumer, merchant, and Dasher platforms create abuse and insider-risk patterns you wonât find in a typical enterprise SOC. Weâre actively consolidating detection onto a modern data platform, so youâll have real influence over what the pipeline looks like.
This role reports to the Senior Manager, Cyber Defense located in the United States and participation in an on-call rotation is required for this role.
Compensation
The successful candidateâs starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employeeâs work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.
In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.
DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. Thatâs why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.
To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.
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The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.
$159,800
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$235,000 USD
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 usersâfrom 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 employeesâ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.
Weâre committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. Thatâs why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
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