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Staff Software Engineer

DoorDash
United States - Remote, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 May 2025
💰 $285,000/yr($193,800/yr$285,000/yr)

About the role

About the Team

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 best security team. We are committed to building the world's most trusted on-demand, logistics engine for delivery! We're building a 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.

Our Security Engineering team is looking for a Software Engineer to design, develop, and operate security services for DoorDash’s cloud infrastructure. You will be a part of our inclusive, collaborative team responsible for building a safe and reliable delivery network. 

What You’ll Do

  • Build core security services, such as remote access management, secrets management, access control at DoorDash scale.
  • Develop security observability and detection systems that enable real time monitoring of all our global production assets.
  • Contribute to secure development efforts across engineering, via building security CI/CD pipelines, and automated remediation tools.
  • Leverage AWS services, adhering to best practices to secure DoorDash’s cloud infrastructure.
  • Use technologies such as Terraform and Go to improve deployment processes and promote best security practices for all customers.
  • Secure applications within container environments like GKE, EKS, and Fargate, ensuring they adhere to security standards
  • Participate in on-call triage rotation and promptly respond to security events if any.
  • Collaborate directly with engineering and security leaders to implement security strategy for DoorDash’s cloud infrastructure and applications.

What We’re Looking For

  • 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.
  • You are an expert in Backend development, specifically using Golang, Kotlin, and Protobuf.
  • 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 and programming experience leading root cause analysis.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills - you can understand and review security design with respect to cloud infrastructure to security and engineering personnel. 
  • Experience in CI/CD pipelines to automate security testing. 

Why You’ll Love Working at DoorDash

  • We are leaders - Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something everyone at DoorDash embraces and embodies.
  • We are doers - We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do -- on every project, every day. 
  • We are learners - We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job, no matter if we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute.
  • We are customer-obsessed - Our mission is to grow and empower local economies. We are committed to our customers, merchants, and dashers and believe in connecting people with possibility.
  • We are all DoorDash - The magic of DoorDash is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights. 
  • We offer great compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits.


We expect this position to be filled by 7/5/25


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