Security Software Engineer II, Detection and Response

About the role

Pinterest is a platform where millions of people discover creative ideas, dream about new possibilities, and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. We're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and we're looking for candidates who are passionate about building a secure and innovative environment.

Responsibilities

• Build alerts and automation workflows to improve capabilities to detect and respond to external and internal security threats.
• Manage our logging pipelines and infrastructure and onboard new logging sources to improve our detection coverage.
• Develop and maintain internal tooling to expand and automate team detection and response capabilities.
• Respond to alerts generated from our tooling and run incidents as part of an on-call rotation.
• Collaborate with cross-team partners.
• Hunt for previously undetected threats in our environment.
• Leverage AI to streamline and enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and coverage of security engineering.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Strong knowledge of intrusion detection and incident response with an engineering focus in a modern cloud-first environment.
• Knowledge of the attacker lifecycle, common attack and detection techniques.
• Hands-on experience with writing SIEM queries for alerting, response, and threat hunting.
• Experience consuming threat intelligence and applying it to improve detection capabilities.
• Familiarity with using multiple sources of telemetry for threat investigations: e.g., EDR, Osquery, Firewall logs.
• Understanding of networking technologies and/or network security, basic TCP/IP network fundamentals.
• Depth in MacOS internals, or alternatively in Linux/UNIX or Windows internals, persistence mechanisms, privilege escalation techniques.
• Scripting or automation experience (e.g., Python, Go, Ruby) for tool development or integration.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow for relevant outputs.
• Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work (e.g., testing, source-checking, data validation, peer review).
• High integrity and ownership: protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables.

Qualifications

• In-office requirement: 1-2 times every 6 months.
• Relocation statement: Not eligible for relocation assistance.

Benefits

We offer a competitive compensation package, including a base salary range of $123,696—$254,667 USD, and eligibility for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise. For more information about our culture and benefits, visit our PinFlex page.

Schedule

This role requires in-office collaboration 1-2 times every 6 months.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $123,696—$254,667 USD.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.