[Remote] Software Engineer, Proactive Security

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DoorDash is a technology and logistics company focused on empowering local economies. They are seeking a Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and operation of security services within their Product and Cloud Security domains, ensuring a safe and reliable delivery network.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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 program 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
• Must be comfortable regularly exercising discretion and independent judgment in performing job duties, including evaluating options, making informed decisions, and determining appropriate courses of action within the scope of assigned responsibilities

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, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• Disability and basic life insurance
• Family-forming assistance
• Mental health program

Company Overview

• DoorDash is a food delivery platform that connects customers with local and national businesses. It is a sub-organization of DoorDash. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.doordash.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• DoorDash has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 530 in 2025, 510 in 2024, 413 in 2023, 612 in 2022, 439 in 2021, 126 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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