Staff Security Engineer, Proactive Security

DoorDash

$193K — $285K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years as a software engineer in information security or infrastructure engineering.
  • Proven track record in improving a company's infrastructure security posture.
  • Experience with large production environments across various security and infrastructure areas.
  • Proficient in distributed systems and programming languages like Java, Scala, Kotlin, or Golang.
  • Strong expertise in using infrastructure as code tools like Terraform.
  • Solid knowledge of AWS and GCP cloud infrastructure and management.
  • Exceptional analytical skills for root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain security products like Remote Access Management and Tokenization.
  • Collaborate with various teams to integrate secure design practices.
  • Lead technical direction and roadmap for assigned projects.
  • Ensure high Operational Excellence for service uptime and standards.
  • Respond promptly to on-call events and manage incident resolution.
  • Oversee the lifecycle of security feature requests from design to implementation.
  • Enhance engineering standards and leverage advancements for productivity.
  • Mentor junior engineers, fostering high standards of excellence.

Benefits

  • 401(k) plan with employer matching.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Comprehensive wellness and commuter benefits.
  • Flexible paid time off with additional paid sick leave.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
  • 11 paid holidays and disability insurance.
  • Family-forming assistance and a mental health program.
Full Job Description
About the Role

Our Security Engineering team is looking for a Staff Security Engineerto 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.


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

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