
Staff Software Engineer
DoorDash
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $193,800 - $285,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Architect and build scalable software solutions that simplify complex security workflows.
- Integrate global security technologies and improve operational efficiency for security teams.
- Design microservices, build automation pipelines, and develop APIs that enable secure integrations across infrastructure, applications, and safety systems.
- Guide technical direction, lead architectural decisions, and mentor engineers.
- Help establish engineering standards that improve developer productivity and scalability across the security ecosystem.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience as a software engineer in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or security engineering disciplines.
- Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems and microservices in large scale production environments.
- Strong experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, or automation systems that improve engineering productivity and operational efficiency.
- Highly skilled in backend development using programming languages such as Python.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and services in AWS, including infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, influence architecture decisions, and mentor engineers.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with experience investigating complex system issues and improving service reliability.
- Experience building or operating security platforms or internal developer platforms that support multiple engineering teams.
- Experience developing automation frameworks or APIs that integrate enterprise security systems such as identity platforms, secrets management systems, or security telemetry pipelines.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Copilot, or similar systems to accelerate development and automate engineering workflows.
- Experience designing event-driven architectures, workflow orchestration systems, or large-scale automation pipelines.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits match
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability insurance
- Basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance
- Mental health program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringplatform engineeringinfrastructure engineeringsecurity engineeringdistributed systemsmicroservicesbackend developmentPythoncloud infrastructureautomation frameworks
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringanalytical skillsproblem-solvinginfluencing architecture decisions