DoorDash

Security Engineer, Proactive Security

DoorDash

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $159,800 - $235,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoJavaPythonTerraform

About the role

  • Lead threat modeling, hardening and operation of security services within DoorDash’s Product and Cloud Security domains.
  • Define, document and implement security standards, guidelines and procedures to design and implement automated security controls and remediation tools.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Core Infrastructure, Product Engineering, Legal, Security teams and Vendor Partners to build “paved paths” that embed secure design practices.
  • Lead the technical direction and roadmap for your assigned area of ownership.
  • Build and maintain high Operational Excellence (OE) to ensure minimal downtime.
  • Participate in on-call rotation and respond to on-call events with urgency.
  • Manage the lifecycle of product and cloud security vulnerabilities, from identification to remediation.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Proficiency 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.
Benefits
  • 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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
security engineeringinfrastructure securityOWASP top 10 vulnerabilitiesdistributed systems securityCI/CD pipelinescode analysisscripting languagesPythonJavaTerraform
Soft skills
mentoringcoachinganalytical abilitiesinvestigative abilitiescreative thinkingcommunication skillscollaborationleadershipproblem-solvingoperational excellence