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DoorDash USA

Detection Engineer, Protective Services

California: eligible, according to the employer's posting.
Who can apply: Only open to applicants in: California.
Location as listed by the employer: “United States - Remote ; San Francisco, CA”
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About this role

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

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, security operations engineering, technical threat intelligence, or software engineering applied to security problems.
  • Experience contributing to production detection pipelines using source control, testing, review, deployment, and monitoring practices.
  • Proficiency in SQL or a security query language and the ability to write maintainable code in Python, Go, or another relevant language.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to explore unfamiliar datasets, assess data quality, troubleshoot across systems, and turn threat information into testable detection hypotheses.
  • Experience triaging alerts and investigations, correlating signals across data sources, assessing confidence and scope, and clearly communicating what the evidence supports.
  • Experience building detections or conducting investigations using security, behavioral, or other relevant telemetry. Exposure to identity, endpoint, cloud, marketplace, physical security, OSINT, or unstructured data is…
  • Experience using automation or analytics to improve detection and investigation workflows; familiarity with machine learning or LLM-based techniques is a plus.
  • Familiarity with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK or D3FEND and their use in organizing detection coverage and identifying gaps.

Summarized from the employer's posting — check the full posting for every requirement.