Senior Detection Engineer, Protective Services

The posting, as DoorDash wrote it

About the Team

DoorDash is one of the world's most trusted on-demand logistics platforms. The Global Safety and Security team exists to keep it that way, protecting our people, property, operations, brand, and reputation across all our markets. We manage risk and create value through agility, technology, and a people-first approach. Our DoorDash, Deliveroo, and Wolt brands now span more than 40 countries, dozens of offices, and tens of thousands of employees. Protective Services focuses specifically on the safety of our executives, their families, and the operations that support them. Its detection engineering function brings together enterprise, marketplace, open-source, and physical security signals to identify threats that do not fit within a traditional SOC boundary. This role builds the detection capabilities that turn those signals into timely, actionable information for Protective Services.

About the Role

We are hiring a Senior Detection Engineer to build and improve the technical capabilities Protective Services uses to identify threats to protected individuals. You will develop detections, pipelines, enrichment, and automation across enterprise security telemetry, marketplace signals, open-source information, and physical security systems. This detection problem extends beyond conventional cybersecurity alerts. Relevant indicators may appear across identities, endpoints, cloud environments, support interactions, marketplace activity, access-control events, or unstructured online content. You will determine how to combine those signals, distinguish meaningful escalation from noise, and directly investigate resulting activity alongside Protective Services partners. That proximity to active cases grounds engineering decisions in real investigative needs and reveals opportunities to improve fidelity, automate friction, and reduce time to action. This is a hands-on security engineering role. You will work in code, queries, data pipelines, detection repositories, and production systems; carry detections from hypothesis through deployment and optimization; and use operational outcomes to improve coverage and quality. This role reports to the Engineering Manager, Protective Services, and requires participation in an on-call rotation.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Conduct hands-on detection engineering for Protective Services, translating threat intelligence, investigative needs, known incidents, and observed behavior into high-quality custom alerting
• Implement risk-based analytics that reduce unnecessary alert volume, prioritize meaningful threats, and give investigators the context to act
• Build, test, deploy, and operate detection-as-code pipelines that support reliable detection at DoorDash’s scale
• Integrate enterprise telemetry, marketplace activity, physical security events, OSINT, support interactions, and other external signals into detections tailored to protective use cases
• Work with stru

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