DoorDash USA

Senior Detection Engineer, Protective Services

Who can apply: Only open to applicants in: Connecticut.
Location as listed by the employer: “United States - Remote; Hartford, CT”
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About this role

DoorDash USA is hiring for a Senior Detection Engineer, Protective Services role. See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in detection engineering, alert development, threat hunting, incident response, security operations engineering, technically oriented threat intelligence, or software engineering applied to securi…
  • Direct experience building, maintaining, and operating production detection-as-code pipelines using source control, testing, review, deployment, and monitoring
  • A proven track record building automation that measurably improves detection accuracy, speed, or investigative quality
  • Demonstrated experience building agents or LLM-backed tooling to solve detection or investigation problems, including evaluating quality, reliability, and failure modes
  • Strong investigative judgment, including translating incomplete threat information into testable hypotheses, evaluating competing explanations, and communicating what the evidence supports
  • Experience building detections across diverse security or behavioral datasets, with the ability to assess data quality and quickly learn unfamiliar sources
  • Familiarity with telemetry relevant to protective investigations, such as marketplace activity, physical access, alarms, video, OSINT, or support interactions; expertise across every source is not expected
  • Extensive knowledge of cloud-based and distributed systems, including troubleshooting across queries, code, pipelines, and source systems

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