DoorDash is hiring a Software Engineer, Proactive Security to join the Security Engineering team. In this role, you will build and maintain core security products and services, lead technical direction, and partner cross-functionally to embed secure design practices across the company’s product and cloud infrastructure.
What You'll Do
- Build and maintain core security products, including Remote Access Management, Secrets Management, Tokenization, Knowledge Graphs, and Access Control at DoorDash scale.
- Partner cross-functionally with Core Infrastructure, Product Engineering, Legal, Security teams, and Vendor Partners to build 'paved paths' that embed secure design practices.
- Lead the technical direction and roadmap for your assigned area of ownership.
- Build and maintain high Operational Excellence (OE) to ensure services operate with minimal downtime.
- Participate in on-call rotation and promptly respond to on-call events.
- Manage the lifecycle of security product feature requests and improvements from triage to implementation.
- Influence and drive improvements to engineering standards, leveraging advancements and LLMs to improve productivity.
- Mentor and coach earlier career engineers, setting high standards for Operational Excellence and Software Engineering.
What We're Looking For
- 6+ years of experience as a software engineer in an information security or infrastructure engineering discipline.
- 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.
- 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.
Technical Stack
- Languages: Java/Scala/Kotlin, Golang, Python
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- Cloud: AWS
Team & Environment
You will be part of the inclusive, collaborative global Security Engineering team, reporting to the Manager of the Security Engineering team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $159,800 - $235,000 USD + opportunities for equity grants.
- 401(k) plan with employer matching.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Wellness benefits.
- Commuter benefits match.
- Paid time off/vacation (flexible for salaried roles, accrued for hourly roles).
- Paid sick leave (80 hours/year for salaried, accrued for hourly).
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 11 paid holidays.
- Disability and basic life insurance.
- Family-forming assistance.
- Mental health program.
Work Mode
This role is open to candidates in the United States and Canada.
DoorDash is committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community and values a diverse workforce. We hire and cultivate diverse teams from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. DoorDash is an equal opportunity employer. No employee or applicant will face discrimination based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status.
