About the role
About Pinterest
Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
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At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.
Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.
Pinterest is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to build and improve our detection and response capabilities and adapt to emerging threats to protect our employees and infrastructure. In this role, you will have the opportunity to solve challenging problems and make a meaningful impact on our overall security posture. We are looking for a candidate with a passion for both security and innovation.
What you’ll do
- Act as senior technical resource for the Detection & Response Team
- Identify capability gaps and help define the strategy and roadmap for the team
- Imagine new ways to improve our detection engineering program and lead efforts to build new capabilities
- Build alerts and automation workflows to improve our ability to detect and respond to external and internal security threats
- Manage logging pipelines and supporting infrastructure, and onboard new logging sources to improve detection coverage
- Develop and maintain internal tooling to expand and automate the team’s detection and response capabilities
- Respond to alerts generated by our tooling and lead incidents as part of an on-call rotation
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners across security and engineering
- Hunt for previously undetected threats in our environment
- Leverage AI to streamline and enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and coverage of security engineering