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Staff Security Engineer, Proactive Security

Doordash · United States - Remote · Posted 2026-08-24

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About the Role Our Security Engineering team is looking for a Staff Security 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 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 or Golang. • 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. Why You’ll Love Working at DoorDash • 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 is continually learning on the job, no matter if we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute. • We are customer-obsessed - Our mission is to grow and empower local economies. We are committed to our customers, merchants, and dashers and believe in connecting people with possibility. • We are all DoorDash - The magic of DoorDash is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights. • We offer exceptional compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits. Compensation The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future. In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information. DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others. To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here. See below for paid time off details: • For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year. • For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week). The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado. $193,800—$285,000 USD About DoorDash At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and a