Senior Detection Engineer, Protective Services
Core
Build detection capabilities and pipelines that integrate enterprise, marketplace, open-source, and physical security signals to identify threats to executives and protected operations.
Role type
Senior hands-on security detection engineer
Builds
Production detection-as-code pipelines, risk-based analytics, and agentic tooling for protective services
Domain
Cybersecurity + Physical Security + Threat Intelligence (via careerplan.io/jobs/8259130-senior-detection-engineer-protective-services-at-doordashusa)
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
detection engineering, alert development, threat hunting, incident response, detection-as-code pipelines, automation, LLM-backed tooling, investigative judgment, SQL/SIEM query languages, Python/Go, MITRE ATT&CK frameworks
Preferred skills
Snowflake, Cortex, Google SecOps
Responsibilities
Develop custom alerting from threat intelligence and investigative needs; build and operate detection pipelines integrating diverse data sources; conduct technical triage and correlate signals across sources; mentor engineers and maintain detection repositories; participate in on-call rotation for significant protective cases
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
