# Detection Engineer II

**Company**: Instacart
**Location**: Canada - Remote (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: CAN$145,000-$153,000
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/instacart/jobs/8080532?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e10d5319-d8e

## Description

Instacart's Detection Engineering team builds and operates systems to identify, surface, and respond to threats across one of North America's largest grocery technology platforms.

As a Detection Engineer, you'll develop high-fidelity detection logic, hunt for novel attacker techniques, and raise the bar for coverage, quality, and scale.

Responsibilities:

- Develop, tune, document, and maintain detection logic across multiple log sources

- Assist in cyber forensic investigations

- Optimize log ingestion pipelines and telemetry collection

- Design and build SOAR playbooks and automation workflows

- Mentor and knowledge share with other detection engineers

About You:

- 2+ years of experience in detection engineering, incident response, or offensive security

- Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

- Understanding of attacker TTPs across modern zero-trust environments

- Proficiency with macOS internals and telemetry

- Experience implementing detection-as-code workflows

- Basic proficiency with Python, Golang, or other programming/scripting languages

Benefits:

- Highly market-competitive compensation

- New hire equity grant and annual refresh grants

- Flexible remote work policy

## Skills

### Required
- detection engineering
- incident response
- offensive security
- public cloud platforms
- attacker TTPs
- macOS internals
- detection-as-code workflows
- Python
- Golang

### Nice to have
- red teaming
- machine learning for threat detection

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