Senior Detection & Response Security Engineer

Pinterest Engineering; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 177,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to enhance detection/response capabilities and combat evolving threats. You’ll lead the Detection & Response Team, build new capabilities, and automate workflows to protect employees and infrastructure.

Ideal candidates have strong IR, SIEM, and cloud‑first expertise, with demonstrated AI‑assisted workflow improvements and on-call incident leadership. This role is based in the United States with flexible office expectations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Cybersecurity, or related field.
• Hands-on in intrusion detection and IR with cloud-first environments.
• Experience writing SIEM queries for alerting and hunting.

Responsibilities

• Act as senior technical resource for the Detection & Response Team.
• Identify gaps and define strategy/roadmap for the team.
• Build capabilities and automation to improve detection.
• Develop and maintain tooling for detection/response.
• Respond to alerts and lead incidents on on-call.
• Collaborate across security and engineering.
• Hunt for undetected threats in our environment.
• Leverage AI to improve speed/quality of outputs.

Skills

Intrusion detection

Incident response

AI-assisted work

Threat hunting

Python/Go/Ruby

Threat intelligence

Networking fundamentals

Cloud environments

On-call rotation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

EDR

Osquery

Firewall logs

Job description

Pinterest is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to enhance detection/response capabilities and combat evolving threats. You’ll lead the Detection & Response Team, build new capabilities, and automate workflows to protect employees and infrastructure.

Ideal candidates have strong IR, SIEM, and cloud‑first expertise, with demonstrated AI‑assisted workflow improvements and on-call incident leadership. This role is based in the United States with flexible office expectations.