Senior Detection & Response Engineer - AI-Driven Security

Pinterest, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 177,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest, Inc. is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to build and improve detection and response capabilities and adapt to evolving threats to protect our employees and infrastructure.

In this role, you will solve challenging problems and influence our security posture. You will act as a senior technical resource for the Detection & Response Team, define strategy and roadmaps, and lead initiatives to develop new capabilities and automation, including AI-enabled tooling.

Qualifications

• Broad and deep knowledge of intrusion detection and incident response in a cloud-first environment.
• Experience writing SIEM queries for alerting, response, and threat hunting.
• Familiarity with threat intelligence and telemetry sources for investigations.

Responsibilities

• Act as senior technical resource for the Detection & Response Team.
• Define strategy and roadmap for the team.
• Lead efforts to build new detection capabilities and automation, including AI-enabled tooling.
• Develop and maintain tooling to expand detection and response capabilities.
• Respond to alerts and lead incidents as part of an on-call rotation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners across security and engineering.
• Hunt for previously undetected threats.

Skills

Intrusion detection

Incident response

SIEM queries

Threat hunting

Threat intelligence

EDR

Networking fundamentals

OS internals

Scripting (Python/Go/Ruby)

AI in workflows

AI quality assurance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

SIEM

Osquery

Firewall logs

Job description

Pinterest, Inc. is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to build and improve detection and response capabilities and adapt to evolving threats to protect our employees and infrastructure.

In this role, you will solve challenging problems and influence our security posture. You will act as a senior technical resource for the Detection & Response Team, define strategy and roadmaps, and lead initiatives to develop new capabilities and automation, including AI-enabled tooling.