Pinterest is a platform where millions of people find creative ideas. The Security team is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to build and implement detection and response improvements and adapt to emerging threats.
Responsibilities
Build alerts and automation workflows to improve detection and response capabilities.
Manage logging pipelines and infrastructure, onboard new logging sources.
Develop and maintain internal tooling to expand and automate detection and response.
Respond to alerts and run incidents as part of an on-call rotation.
Collaborate with cross-team partners.
Hunt for previously undetected threats.
Leverage AI to streamline and enhance security engineering.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field or equivalent experience.
Strong knowledge of intrusion detection and incident response in a modern cloud first environment.
Knowledge of attacker lifecycle, common attack and detection techniques.
Hands-on experience writing SIEM queries for alerting, response, and threat hunting.
Experience consuming threat intel and applying it to improve detection.
Familiarity with multiple telemetry sources (EDR, Osquery, Firewall logs).
Understanding of networking technologies and TCP/IP fundamentals.
Depth in MacOS internals or Linux/UNIX/Windows internals, persistence mechanisms, privilege escalation.
Scripting or automation experience (Python, Go, Ruby).
Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality.
Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work.