The opportunity
Instacarts Detection Engineering team sits at the core of our Security organization, building and operating the systems that identify, surface, and respond to threats across one of North America's largest grocery technology platforms. We own the full detection lifecycle, from…
What you'll do
Develop, tune, document, and maintain detection logic across multiple log: sources including endpoint, cloud, container, and SaaS products.
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
+ years of experience in a detection engineering, incident response, or offensive security role.
What they're looking for
- Experience with 1 or more public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Deep understanding of attacker TTPs across modern zero trust environments,: including identity compromise, token theft, and abuse of trust boundaries
- Proficient understanding of macOS internals and telemetry available to identify macOS specific threats
- Experience implementing detection-as-code workflows including version: control, peer review processes, automated testing, and CI/CD deployment pipelines
