Staff Security Engineer, Proactive Security

Our Security Engineering team is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design, development and operation of security services within DoorDash’s Product and Cloud Security domains. You will be a part of our inclusive, collaborative global team responsible for building “paved paths” to ensure a safe, reliable and resilient delivery network. This is a US or Canada remote position reporting directly to the Manager of our Security Engineering team.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Build and maintain core security products, including but not limited to Remote Access Management, Secrets Management, Tokenization, and Knowledge Graphs, Access Control at DoorDash scale.

• Partner cross-functionally with Core Infrastructure, Product Engineering, Legal, Security teams and Vendor Partners to build “paved paths” that provide actionable feedback to embed secure design practices into the product and infrastructure development process.

• Lead the technical direction and roadmap for your assigned area of ownership.

• Build and maintain high Operational Excellence (OE) to ensure we operate services with excellence, rigor and durable standards to ensure minimal downtime.

• Participate in on-call rotation and promptly respond to on-call events with urgency and rigor.

• Manage the lifecycle of security product feature requests and improvements full life-cycle from triage, validation, design, testing, and implementation.

• Influence and drive improvements to engineering standards, leverage advancements and LLMs to improve productivity and velocity.

• Mentor and coach earlier career engineers, setting and enforcing high standards for Operational Excellence and Software Engineering.

We’re excited about you because…

• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer in an information security or infrastructure engineering discipline.

• Able to demonstrate a track record of driving improvements to a company’s infrastructure security posture.

• Breadth of technical experience across various infrastructure and security areas running in large production environments.

• Highly skilled in distributed systems and platforms development using program languages such as Java/Scala/Kotlin, Golang, or Python.

• Strong experience with infrastructure as a code tooling like Terraform.

• Expertise with cloud infrastructure and management in AWS and GCP.

• Experience solving complex, systemic issues that require creative thinking and solutions.

• Exceptional analytical and investigative abilities with hands-on experience leading root cause analysis.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to review design documents with respect to cloud infrastructure, security and engineering personnel.

• We are leaders - Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something everyone at DoorDash embraces and embodies.

• We are doers - We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do -- on every project, every day.

• We are learners - We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here