Software Engineer, Proactive Security
DoorDash
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $159,800 - $235,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoJavaKotlinPythonScalaTerraform
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 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 programming languages such as Java/Scala/Kotlin, Golang, or Python.
- 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 to review design documents with respect to cloud infrastructure, security and engineering personnel.
Benefits
- 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
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability and basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance
- Mental health program
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Hard skills
JavaScalaKotlinGolangPythonTerraformcloud infrastructuredistributed systemsroot cause analysissecurity product lifecycle management
Soft skills
analytical abilitiesinvestigative abilitiescommunication skillsmentoringcoachingcross-functional collaborationleadershipproblem-solvingoperational excellencetechnical direction