DoorDash

Staff Security Engineer, Proactive Security

DoorDash
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Base Salary

$194k - $285k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain core security products including remote access management, secrets management, tokenization, knowledge graphs, and access control.
  • Partner with infrastructure, product engineering, legal, security, and vendor teams to embed secure design practices into product and infrastructure development.
  • Lead the technical direction and roadmap for an assigned area of ownership.
  • Establish and maintain operational excellence standards for reliable, resilient services with minimal downtime.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation and respond promptly to operational events.
  • Manage security product feature requests through triage, validation, design, testing, and implementation.
  • Drive improvements to engineering standards and leverage LLMs to improve productivity and velocity.
  • Mentor and coach earlier-career engineers while setting and enforcing software engineering and operational excellence standards.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience as a software engineer in information security or infrastructure engineering.
  • Demonstrated success improving an organization’s infrastructure security posture.
  • Broad technical experience across infrastructure and security areas in large production environments.
  • Strong distributed systems and platform development skills using Java, Scala, Kotlin, Go, or Python.
  • Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform.
  • Expertise managing cloud infrastructure in AWS and GCP.
  • Ability to solve complex systemic issues through creative solutions.
  • Strong analytical and investigative abilities, including hands-on root cause analysis leadership.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills for reviewing cloud infrastructure, security, and engineering design documents.

Benefits

  • US or Canada remote position.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • 401(k) plan with employer matching.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave, family-forming assistance, and flexible paid time off for salaried roles.
  • Paid sick leave, 11 paid holidays, disability insurance, and basic life insurance.
  • Wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, wellness expense reimbursement, and a mental health program.
DoorDash

About DoorDash

10,000+ employees

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly and always learn and reiterate to support merchants, Dashers and the communities we serve. We are a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods. DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. Our leaders seek the truth and welcome big, hairy, audacious questions. We are grounded in our company values, and we make intentional decisions that are both logical and display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to Merchants to Customers.