# Security Software Engineer II, Detection and Response
**Company:** [Pinterest](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pinterest)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $124K-$255K
**Skills:** SIEM, Edr, Osquery, Python, Go, Ruby, AI, macOS, Linux, TCP/IP
**Posted:** 2026-04-14
> Builds detection and response systems, manages logging pipelines, develops internal security tools, and hunts threats in a cloud environment. Requires strong incident response experience, SIEM querying, scripting, and AI utilization skills.
## Job Description
## What you'll do

- Build alerts and automation workflows to improve capabilities to detect and response 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.

## What we’re looking for

- **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 intel and applying it to improve detection capabilities
- Familiarity with using multiple sources of telemetry for threat investigations: Eg. **EDR**, **Osquery**, Firewall logs
- Understanding of networking technologies and/or network security, basic **TCP/IP** network fundamentals
- Depth in ideally **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).
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