About the Team
At DoorDash we’re building the industry’s most scalable and reliable delivery network to support our three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and Dashers. Security is paramount to the success of our business, and DoorDash Security aspires to be the world’s most admired security team. We are committed to building the world's most trusted on-demand, logistics engine for delivery! We're expanding our team of great minds to help us secure and maintain a 24x7, no downtime, global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash’s multi-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and drivers.
About the Role
Our Security Engineering team is looking for a SeniorSecurity Engineer to lead threat modeling, hardening 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 or Canada remote position reporting directly to the Manager of our Security Engineering team.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Threat model, design, harden, and operationalize Product and Cloud Security services and controls at DoorDash scale.
- Define, document and implement security standards, guidelines and procedures to design and implement automated security controls and remediation tools with rigor and developer ergonomics.
- 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 product and cloud security vulnerabilities, from identification, triage, and drive remediation, reporting and metrics.
- Influence and enable the secure and responsible adoption of LLMs and AI tools.
- Mentor and coach earlier career engineers, setting high standards for Operational Excellence and Security Engineering.
We’re excited about you because…
- 6+ years of experience as a security engineer in a product security or infrastructure security discipline.
- Able to demonstrate a track record of driving foundational improvements to a company’s infrastructure security posture.
- Breadth of technical experience across various infrastructure and security areas running in large production environments.
- Deep understanding of each OWASP top 10 vulnerability, distributed systems security and design.
- Experience in CI/CD pipelines to automate security control enforcement and testing.
- You proficient in analyzing code, architecture and designs from a security perspective
- Well versed with scripting languages (e.g. Python) and other programming languages (e.g. Java). Golang experience is a plus.
- 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 - you can understand and review design documents with respect to cloud infrastructure with engineering personnel.
Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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 with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.
DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
