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