# Staff Security Software Engineer, Detection & Response

**Company**: Pinterest
**Location**: Seattle, WA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $177,185-$364,795 USD
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Pinterest is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to build and improve detection and response capabilities. As a Staff Security Software Engineer, Detection & Response, you will act as a senior technical resource for the Detection & Response Team, identifying capability gaps and defining the strategy and roadmap for the team.

Responsibilities:

- Act as senior technical resource for the Detection & Response Team

- Identify capability gaps and help define the strategy and roadmap for the team

- Imagine new ways to improve detection engineering program and lead efforts to build new capabilities

- Build alerts and automation workflows to improve detection and response to security threats

- Manage logging pipelines and supporting infrastructure

- Develop and maintain internal tooling to expand and automate 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 in the environment

- Leverage AI to streamline and enhance security engineering

Requirements:

- Broad and deep knowledge of intrusion detection and incident response

- Knowledge of the attacker lifecycle and common attack techniques

- Hands-on experience writing SIEM queries

- Experience consuming threat intelligence

- Familiarity with using multiple sources of telemetry for threat investigations

- Understanding of networking technologies and/or network security

- Depth in macOS, Linux/UNIX, or Windows internals

- Scripting or automation experience

- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality

- Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field

Benefits:

- Base salary range: $177,185-$364,795 USD

- Eligible for equity

In-Office Requirement:

- 1-2 times every 6 months in the office for in-person collaboration

Relocation Statement:

- Not eligible for relocation assistance

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## Skills

### Required
- intrusion detection
- incident response
- SIEM queries
- threat intelligence
- networking technologies
- scripting
- AI

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