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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 27 days DoorDash USA's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of DoorDash USA's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at DoorDash USA
- low 0 stale, 8 reposted of 462 open
- Hiring momentum
- 682 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from DoorDash USA's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for DoorDash USA.
About this role
As a Senior Detection Engineer at DoorDash, you will be responsible for hands-on detection engineering, creating and optimizing alerting systems to identify cyber threats effectively. You will collaborate with various teams to integrate threat intelligence and build detection capabilities across cloud infrastructure and corporate endpoints. Additionally, you will mentor other engineers and participate in projects aimed at enhancing the security posture of DoorDash's brands.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of DoorDash USA as an employer.
What you need
- 7+ years of experience in secure coding, alert development, and detection engineering
- Direct experience building, maintaining, and operating a detection-as-code pipeline
- A proven track record building automation that measurably improved detection accuracy, velocity, or quality
- Demonstrated experience building agents to effectively and efficiently solve detection problems
- Extensive knowledge of cloud based and distributed systems
- Experience working with global and cross-functional partners, especially incident response, insider risk, and threat hunting teams
Nice to have
- Experience with Snowflake, Cortex, Google SecOps is preferred
What you get
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- wellness benefits
- commuter benefits match
- paid time off
- paid sick leave
Worth weighing
- Participation in an on-call rotation is required
- The role involves working with a rapidly maturing security function
- The job requires collaboration with various teams, which may involve complex communication and coordination
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Listed by DoorDash USA on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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