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Global Cyber Defense is a highly talented and globally distributed team that covers response, intelligence, insider risk, threat hunting, automation, and detection engineering.\nWe 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. \nAbout the Role\nThe 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. \nDetection at DoorDash spans more than the corporate estate. You’ll 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 won’t find in a typical enterprise SOC. We’re actively consolidating detection onto a modern data platform, so you’ll have real influence over what the pipeline looks like.\nThis 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. \nYou’re excited about this opportunity because you will…\nConduct hands-on detection engineering for custom alerting, to include implementing risk-based analytics to reduce alert volumes and promote high-fidelity alert content\nIntegrate external signals such as threat intelligence into alerting pipelines tailored to specific use cases \nDevelop and maintain agentic tooling to increase detection efficacy and efficiency\nLeverage security tooling, logs, and custom telemetry to build detections at scale\nWork with structured and unstructured telemetry to produce meaningful security signals\nMaintain detection repositories, use case libraries, and conduct routine content optimization\nCoordinate with cross-functional teams, internally and externally, on threats targeting DoorDash\nParticipate in and lead projects that improve the security posture of all DoorDash brands\nCreate and maintain standards and documentation to improve service consistency\nMentor and uplevel other engineers within the Cyber Defense organization\nParticipate in and support our on-call rotation\nWe’re excited about you because you have…\n7+ years of experience in secure coding, alert development, and detection engineering.\nDirect experience building, maintaining, and operating a detection-as-code pipeline\nA proven track record building automation that measurably improved detection accuracy, velocity, or quality\nDemonstrated experience building agents to effectively and efficiently solve detection problems\nExtensive knowledge of cloud based and distributed systems\nExperience working with global and cross-functional partners, especially incident response, insider risk, and threat hunting teams\nMastery of SIEM querying (sql, spl, kql) and programming languages (python, go, etc)\nExperience translating MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND, and other industry frameworks into meaningful rationalizations of detection coverage \nExcellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills\nExperience with Snowflake, Cortex, Google SecOps is preferred \nCompensation\nThe successful candidate’s 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 employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.\nIn addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.\nDoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s 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.\nTo learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.\nSee below for paid time off details:\nFor salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.\n For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).\nThe national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.\n$159,800—$235,000 USD\nAbout DoorDash\nAt 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.\nDoorDash 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.\nOur Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nWe’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s 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.\nStatement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce - people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.\nIf you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.\n\nNotice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only\nWe used Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provided Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023. We resumed using Covey Scout for Inbound again on June 29, 2024, and ceased using Covey Scout for Inbound on April 30, 2026.\nThe Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor. 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