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Staff Security Software Engineer, Detection & Response

Location: Seattle, WA, US; Remote, US · Category: Engineering & Development · Seniority: Lead · USD177,185 – USD364,795 / yearly · Posted: November 10, 2026 · Verified: Nov 13, 2026

Role Overview & Description

This Staff Security Software Engineer role at Pinterest builds and improves detection and response capabilities to protect employees and infrastructure. The engineer will act as a senior technical resource, define strategy and roadmap for the Detection & Response team, build alerts and automation workflows, manage logging pipelines, and lead incident response. The role requires deep knowledge of intrusion detection, incident response in a cloud-first environment, SIEM query writing, and scripting experience in Python, Go, or Ruby.
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