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Security Software Engineer II, Detection and Response

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2 months ago
Remote, United States or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$124k - $255k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build alerts and automation workflows to detect and respond to internal and external security threats
  • Manage logging pipelines and infrastructure and onboard new logging sources to improve detection coverage
  • Develop and maintain internal tooling that expands and automates detection and response capabilities
  • Respond to alerts and run security incidents as part of an on-call rotation
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners
  • Hunt for previously undetected threats in the environment
  • Use AI to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and coverage of security engineering

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Strong knowledge of intrusion detection and incident response in a modern cloud-first environment
  • Knowledge of attacker lifecycles and common attack and detection techniques
  • Hands-on experience writing SIEM queries for alerting, response, and threat hunting
  • Experience consuming threat intelligence and applying it to improve detection capabilities
  • Familiarity with telemetry sources such as EDR, Osquery, and firewall logs for threat investigations
  • Understanding of networking technologies, network security, and basic TCP/IP fundamentals
  • Depth in macOS internals, or alternatively Linux/UNIX or Windows internals, persistence mechanisms, and privilege escalation techniques
  • Scripting or automation experience with Python, Go, Ruby, or similar tools
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality of relevant day-to-day work
  • Ability to critically evaluate and verify AI-assisted work through testing, source-checking, data validation, and peer review
  • High integrity, ownership, and accountability when protecting sensitive data and making final decisions

Benefits

  • Remote work arrangement with in-office collaboration required only 1–2 times every 6 months, allowing the role to be situated anywhere in the country
  • Eligible for equity
  • US-based applicants only
  • Not eligible for relocation assistance

Tech Stack

GoLinuxmacOSPythonRubyWindows

Categories

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About Pinterest

1,001-5,000 employees

Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. It's the visual inspiration platform where more than 600 million monthly active users worldwide come to search, save, and shop the best ideas in the world for all of life’s moments.