Staff Security Engineer, Proactive Security
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Staff Security Engineer leading proactive security services, infrastructure protection, and secure engineering paths at DoorDash. Building resilient products for the technology and logistics company’s delivery network.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, development, and operation of security services within DoorDash’s Product and Cloud Security domains
- Build and maintain core security products, including Remote Access Management, Secrets Management, Tokenization, Knowledge Graphs, and Access Control at DoorDash scale
- Partner with Core Infrastructure, Product Engineering, Legal, Security teams, and vendor partners to build secure “paved paths”
- Provide actionable feedback to embed secure design practices into product and infrastructure development
- Lead the technical direction and roadmap for the assigned area of ownership
- Build and maintain operational excellence standards to minimize downtime
- Participate in the on-call rotation and respond promptly to on-call events
- Manage security product feature requests and improvements through triage, validation, design, testing, and implementation
- Drive improvements to engineering standards and leverage LLM advancements to improve productivity and velocity
- Mentor and coach earlier-career engineers
Requirements:
- 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 in large production environments
- Highly skilled in distributed systems and platform development using Java, Scala, Kotlin, or Golang
- Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform
- Expertise with cloud infrastructure and management in AWS and GCP
- Experience solving complex, systemic issues requiring creative thinking and solutions
- Exceptional analytical and investigative abilities
- Hands-on experience leading root cause analysis
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for reviewing design documents with cloud infrastructure, security, and engineering personnel
Benefits:
- Equity grant opportunities
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits match
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability insurance
- Basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance
- Mental health program
- Flexible paid time off/vacation for salaried roles
- 80 hours of paid sick time per year for salaried roles
- Premium healthcare
- Wellness expense reimbursement
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