About the Role

Our Proactive Security Engineering team is looking for a Staff Security Engineer, Proactive Security to execute on AI Security Product Engineering following a forward deployed engineering Pod model.

You will be a part of our inclusive, collaborative forward deployed engineering team responsible for building "paved road" Security Product controls directly into our AI surfaces for our Customer, Merchant and Dasher products to ensure a safe, secure and resilient delivery network. This is not a classic Product Security role performing reviews and operating platform products, this is a forward deployed model where we operate in Pods that focus on domain code bases to build and ship AI Security Products including Hardened Product Agents, AI Guardrails, MCP Gateways and many upcoming AI Hardening initiatives.

This is a US remote position reporting directly to the Manager of our Proactive Security Engineering team.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will...

• Co-lead the technical direction and roadmap for secure and responsible building of AI Security Products at DoorDash.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product Engineering, Legal, Security Engineering Platform, Data teams and XFN partners to build "paved road" proactive security controls that enable secure by design AI products into DoorDash eco-system. Examples of AI Security Products this team has built include Hardened Product Agents, AI Guardrails, MCP Gateways and many upcoming AI Hardening initiatives.
• Execute rigorous cross-brand AI enabled vulnerability discovery, multi-level harnesses and automated remediation to protect the company against Mythos-era equipped adversaries.
• Mentor and coach earlier career engineers, setting and enforcing exceptional standards for Operational Excellence and Software Engineering.

We're excited about you because...

• 10+ years of experience as a Security Product Engineer at an Internet scale organization of demonstrated technical leadership building outcomes at global scale.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Security Engineering, a related field or equivalent work experience.
• Embed with product teams to design, build, and deploy security controls for consumer, merchant, and Dasher products.
• Develop reusable "paved road" solutions that help teams build secure AI products by default.
• Partner with Product Engineering, Legal, Data, Security Platform, and other teams to translate security and regulatory requirements into practical engineering controls.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in designing scalable, AI enabled and ergonomic Security Review threat modeling.
• Hands-on experience securing LLM or agentic systems, or demonstrated ability to move quickly into the space from adjacent depth in authorization, sandboxing, or untrusted input handling.
• Demonstrated builder in one or more object oriented languages (e.g. Go, Java) designing technical Security Engineering controls and processes to meet business and regulatory requirements.
• Exceptional problem solving of complex, systemic issues that require audacious thinking, rigor and creativity.

• Exceptional analytical and investigative abilities with hands-on experience leading root cause analysis for security incidents and driving long term roadmaps to remediate.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills - you will confidently shape and lead the Security Product Engineering within your assigned AI Security domain across core engineering and product teams to security preserving control outcomes.

Why You'll Love Working at DoorDash

• 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