DoorDash

Senior Software Engineer, Proactive Security - Platform

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Remote, United StatesSenior
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Base Salary

$160k - $235k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate paved paths for privileged access, secrets management, and identity.
  • Build self-service tooling, SDKs, Terraform modules, and integrations for just-in-time access, short-lived credentials, and dynamic secrets.
  • Design and operate highly available distributed systems involving replication, consistency, and consensus for tier-0 services.
  • Drive migrations away from long-lived credentials and standing access.
  • Integrate security platform capabilities into Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, and GCP environments.
  • Participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation and improve monitoring, runbooks, incident response, and root cause analysis.
  • Enable secure adoption of AI tooling and agentic workflows through access control and secrets brokering.

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of experience as a Software, Infrastructure, or Security Platform Engineer at an internet-scale organization.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Security Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • Strong software engineering skills in Go, or Kotlin, Java, or Python, including production services and developer tooling.
  • Hands-on experience building or operating access management and secret storage systems such as PAM, secrets management, or key management platforms.
  • Experience with Teleport or HashiCorp Vault is preferred.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems, including replication, consistency, and distributed consensus such as Raft or Paxos.
  • Working knowledge of OIDC, SAML, mTLS, workload identity, SPIFFE, AWS IAM Roles, or GCP Workload Identity.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools, and AWS and/or GCP IAM.
  • Track record of building internal platforms or paved paths adopted by other engineers, with a strong focus on developer experience.
  • Experience operating highly available, no-downtime services with mature on-call practices.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to drive adoption across engineering teams.

Benefits

  • US remote position.
  • Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(k) plan with employer matching.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Flexible paid time off and 80 hours of paid sick time per year for salaried roles.
  • Wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program.
  • Equity grant opportunities are included in compensation.
  • The position is expected to be filled by December 31, 2026.
DoorDash

About DoorDash

10,000+ employees

DoorDash builds a marketplace and logistics platform that connects consumers with local restaurants and retailers for on-demand delivery and pickup, powered by a network of independent Dashers. It earns through delivery fees, merchant commissions, advertising, DashPass subscriptions, and white-label fulfillment via DoorDash Drive. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the public company operates across the U.S. and selected international markets, and also researches automation through DoorDash Labs.

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