Senior Detection & Response Security Engineer - Remote

CurationsLA; California; Remote; USD 177,000 - 365,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to build and enhance detection and response capabilities across a cloud-first environment. You will protect employees and infrastructure while shaping how we detect threats and respond to incidents.

You will act as a senior resource for the Detection & Response Team, defining strategy, building new capabilities, and leading on-call responses. Collaboration with security and engineering and applying AI to accelerate work are key parts of the

Qualifications

• Broad and deep knowledge of intrusion detection and incident response in a cloud-first environment.
• Hands‑on experience writing SIEM queries for alerting, response, and threat hunting.
• Experience consuming threat intelligence to improve detection capabilities.
• Familiarity with telemetry sources such as EDR, Osquery, and firewall logs.

Responsibilities

• Act as senior technical resource for the Detection & Response Team.
• Define strategy and roadmap; identify capability gaps for the team.
• Imagine new detection engineering capabilities and lead builds of new tooling.
• Build alerts and automation workflows to detect and respond to threats.
• Manage logging pipelines and onboard new sources to improve coverage.
• Develop and maintain internal tooling to automate detection & response.
• Respond to alerts and lead incidents on a rotating on-call basis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional security and engineering teams.
• Hunt for undetected threats in the environment.
• Leverage AI to improve speed, accuracy, and coverage of security engineering.

Skills

IDS/IR engineering

Threat hunting

Python scripting

AI-assisted workflow

SIEM queries

Threat intel

Networking basics

OS internals

On-call incident response

Cloud-first

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity

Tools

SIEM

Osquery

EDR

Firewall logs

Job description

Pinterest is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to build and enhance detection and response capabilities across a cloud-first environment. You will protect employees and infrastructure while shaping how we detect threats and respond to incidents.

You will act as a senior resource for the Detection & Response Team, defining strategy, building new capabilities, and leading on-call responses. Collaboration with security and engineering and applying AI to accelerate work are key parts of the