Docusign is seeking a Detection Engineer to join the Threat Detection Engineering team. You will architect, build, and maintain threat-driven detection logic and the underlying data pipeline and SIEM platform, applying Detection-as-Code and software development practices. The role focuses on scalable, automated detections across cloud, on-prem, and endpoint environments, with collaboration from Incident Response to translate threat intelligence into actionable detections and automated workflows. You will contribute to continuous improvement of detection capabilities and security tooling across the software development lifecycle.
Company Overview Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM). What you'll do Docusign is seeking a skilled and motivated Detection Engineer to join our Threat Detection Engineering team. Reporting to the Manager of Threat Detection Engineering, you will be a key contributor in architecting, building, and maintaining Docusign's threat detection capabilities. This role is focused on architecting and engineering threat-driven detection logic, leveraging strict Detection-as-Code and software development principles. You will co-architect the design, development, and reliability of the underlying data pipeline and SIEM platform. You will build and deploy scalable, automated detection and response services that ensure robust protection across our cloud, on-premise, and endpoint environments. This role requires a strong software engineering foundation, a focus on system reliability, the ability to support services on-call, and a passion for architecting the critical infrastructure that powers our detection efforts. This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Sr. Manager, Threat Detection Engineering. Responsibility Participate in the design, ownership, and support of the security data pipeline and SIEM platform which involves working with data collection, ingestion, processing, and storage of security telemetry Contribute to optimizing the platform for performance, scalability, and reliability to support all threat detection needs Design, develop, and implement high-fidelity threat detections based on threat intelligence, attacker TTPs, and analysis of security telemetry Focus on creating detections that are effective, accurate, and minimize false positives Embrace and implement Detection-as-Code principles throughout the detection lifecycle including using version control, automated testing, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for detections to ensure consistency, reliability, and scalability Collaborate with the Incident Response team to translate threat intelligence into actionable detections with automated response workflows Participate in post-incident reviews to drive continuous improvement in detection capabilities Contribute to the adoption and integration of new detection technologies, frameworks, and processes Help architect and maintain scalable, automated security discovery and containment systems leveraging modern data platforms, EDR, network traffic analysis tools, and cloud-native security solutions Partner effectively with engineering, product, and other security teams to ensure comprehensive coverage, address blind spots, and instill security monitoring best practices throughout the software development lifecycle Contribute to establishing and authoring repeatable and scalable processes around detection and automation engineering Define and track key performance indicators to measure the effectiveness of detection capabilities Communicate technical security concepts, findings, and recommendations clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders Job Designation Remote: Employee is not required to be in or near an office frequently and works from a designated remote work location for the majority of the time. Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law. What you bring Basic 8+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with at least 2+ years in a dedicated threat detection engineering role The individual must be a U.S. Citizen, U.S. National or U.S. Person. Individuals outside of these categories are generally barred from having logical access to IL5 data or infrastructure Experience with the design, implementation, and support of security data pipelines and SIEM platforms. Experience configuring SIEM platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel via Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform) is a significant advantage Experience in developing threat detections at scale in cloud-inclusive environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) Experience with data pipeline technologies and architectures, including data extraction, transformation, loading, processin