Senior Detection Engineer

Instacart is hiring a Senior Detection Engineer to develop high-fidelity detection logic, hunt for novel attacker techniques, and raise the bar for how they think about coverage, quality, and scale. The team operates with a detection-as-code mindset and cares deeply about reducing noise, improving analyst efficiency through automation and SOAR, and continuously evolving their coverage as the threat landscape shifts.

Requirements

• Develop, tune, document, and maintain detection logic across multiple log sources
• Assist in cyber forensic investigations across a variety of log sources
• Optimize log ingestion pipelines and telemetry collection to ensure high-quality, actionable security data while managing volume and cost
• Design and build SOAR playbooks and automation workflows to streamline detection triage, enrichment, and response actions
• Mentor junior security analysts and detection engineers on threat hunting methodologies, detection logic development, and investigation techniques

Benefits

• Market-competitive compensation
• Benefits in each location
• Equity grant
• Annual refresh grants