Software Engineer, Proactive Security

DoorDash
United States - RemotePosted 23 February 2026

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><p><img style="display: none; max-width: 100%;" src="https://click.appcast.io/greenhouse-te8/a31.png?ent=34e=22630t=1701374353806" width="1px"> <img style="display: none; max-width: 100%;" src="https://track.jobadx.com/v1/i.gif?utm_pixel=224e990b-8ff4-4287-8d5d-2ff09647f181utm_ptz=ESTutm_rqt=track" alt="" width="1"></p></div><h1><strong>About the Team</strong></h1><p>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.</p><h1><strong>About the Role</strong></h1><p>Our Security Engineering team is looking for a <strong>Software Engineer </strong>to 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 or Canada remote position reporting directly to the Manager of our Security Engineering team. </p><h1><strong>You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…</strong></h1><ul><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>Lead the technical direction and roadmap for your assigned area of ownership. </li><li>Build and maintain high Operational Excellence (OE) to ensure we operate services with excellence, rigor and durable standards to ensure minimal downtime.</li><li>Participate in on-call rotation and promptly respond to on-call events with urgency and rigor.</li><li>Manage the lifecycle of security product feature requests and improvements full life-cycle from triage, validation, design, testing, and implementation.</li><li>Influence and drive improvements to engineering standards, leverage advancements and LLMs to improve productivity and velocity. </li><li>Mentor and coach earlier career engineers, setting and enforcing high standards for Operational Excellence and Software Engineering.</li></ul><h1><strong>We’re excited about you because…</strong></h1><ul><li>6+ years of experience as a software engineer in an information security or infrastructure engineering discipline.</li><li>Able to demonstrate a track record of driving improvements to a company’s infrastructure security posture. </li><li>Breadth of technical experience across various infrastructure and security areas running in large production environments.</li><li>Highly skilled in distributed systems and platforms development using program languages such as Java/Scala/Kotlin, Golang, or Python. </li><li>Strong experience with infrastructure as a code tooling like Terraform. </li><li>Expertise with cloud infrastructure and management in AWS.</li><li>Experience solving complex, systemic issues that require creative thinking and solutions.</li><li>Exceptional analytical and investigative abilities with hands-on experience leading root cause analysis.</li><li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills to review design documents with respect to cloud infrastructure, security and engineering personnel. </li><li>Must be comfortable regularly exercising ... (truncated, view full listing at source)