Pinterest

Staff Security Software Engineer, Detection & Response

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Remote, United States or Seattle, WA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$177k - $365k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a senior technical resource for the Detection & Response Team.
  • Define capability gaps, strategy, and roadmap for detection and response.
  • Build detection capabilities, alerts, and automation workflows for security threats.
  • Manage logging pipelines and infrastructure and onboard new logging sources.
  • Develop and maintain internal detection and response tooling.
  • Respond to alerts, lead incidents, and participate in an on-call rotation.
  • Conduct threat hunting and collaborate with security and engineering partners.
  • Use AI to improve the speed, quality, accuracy, and coverage of security engineering work.

Requirements

  • Broad and deep knowledge of intrusion detection, incident response, attacker lifecycles, attack techniques, and detection methods.
  • Hands-on experience writing SIEM queries for alerting, response, and threat hunting.
  • Experience applying threat intelligence to improve detection capabilities.
  • Familiarity with EDR, Osquery, firewall logs, and other telemetry sources.
  • Understanding of networking technologies, network security, and TCP/IP fundamentals.
  • Depth in macOS internals or Linux/UNIX or Windows internals, including persistence and privilege escalation techniques.
  • Scripting or automation experience with languages such as Python, Go, or Ruby.
  • Ability to use, test, source-check, validate, and critically evaluate AI-assisted work.
  • High integrity, ownership, and accountability when protecting sensitive data and delivering security outcomes.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • Remote position that can be based anywhere in the country.
  • In-office collaboration required 1–2 times every six months.
  • Not eligible for relocation assistance.
  • Eligible for equity and Pinterest benefits; benefits details are provided through the company’s benefits information.

Tech Stack

GoLinuxmacOSPythonRubyWindows

Categories

Pinterest

About Pinterest

10,000+ employees

Pinterest builds a visual discovery and bookmarking platform where people search, save, and shop ideas across home, fashion, food, and more. The company monetizes primarily through advertising and shopping integrations, using visual search and recommendation systems to connect users and merchants. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Pinterest is a public company on the NYSE (PINS) with around 482 million monthly users worldwide.

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