Remote Security Engineer II — AI-Driven Threat Detection

Engg; United States; Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to build and implement detection and response improvements and adapt to emerging threats to protect employees and infrastructure. You will work on alerts, logging pipelines, and internal tooling, while collaborating across teams and applying AI to enhance detection capabilities.

The role emphasizes an engineering focus in a cloud-first environment, incident response, and threat hunting with on-call rotation and in-office collaboration 1-2

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or related field.
• Strong knowledge of intrusion detection and incident response with an engineering focus in a modern cloud first environment.
• Hands-on experience with writing SIEM queries for alerting, response, and threat hunting.
• Experience consuming threat intel and applying it to improve detection capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Build alerts and automation workflows to improve capabilities to detect and response to external and internal security threats.
• Manage our logging pipelines and infrastructure and onboard new logging sources to improve our detection coverage.
• Develop and maintain internal tooling to expand and automate team detection and response capabilities.
• Respond to alerts generated from our tooling and run incidents as part of an on-call rotation.
• Collaborate with cross team partners.
• Hunt for previously undetected threats in our environment.
• Leverage AI to streamline and enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and coverage of security engineering.

Skills

Intrusion detection

Incident response

Threat hunting

Python scripting

Cloud security

AI in security

Networking fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Cybersecurity

Tools

EDR

Osquery

Firewall logs

Job description

Pinterest is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to build and implement detection and response improvements and adapt to emerging threats to protect employees and infrastructure. You will work on alerts, logging pipelines, and internal tooling, while collaborating across teams and applying AI to enhance detection capabilities.

The role emphasizes an engineering focus in a cloud-first environment, incident response, and threat hunting with on-call rotation and in-office collaboration 1-2