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Security Engineering is paramount to the success of our business, and DoorDash Security aspires to be one of the world’s most admired Security Engineering teams. 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 Dashers.\nAbout the Role\nOur Proactive Security Engineering team is looking for a Senior Security Engineer, Proactive Security - Platform to help build the paved paths that engineers across DoorDash, Wolt and Deliveroo use to access infrastructure, manage secrets and authenticate services.\nYou will be part of our inclusive, collaborative global Security Engineering Platform team responsible for building and operating tier-0 security services for access management, secret storage and identity, including our in-house Access Platform, Teleport and HashiCorp Vault. Your job is to make the secure path the easiest path while keeping these services secure and resilient: self-service, well documented, and built into the tooling engineers already use every day.\nThis is a US remote position reporting directly to the Manager of our Proactive Security Engineering Platform team. \nYou’re excited about this opportunity because you will…\nDesign, build and harden paved paths for privileged access, secrets management and identity on top of our access management and secret storage platforms.\nThreat model, security review and test tier-0 security services and the integrations around them, and drive findings through to remediation.\nBuild self-service tooling, SDKs, Terraform modules and integrations that let engineering teams adopt just-in-time access, short-lived credentials and dynamic secrets without filing a ticket.\nHelp drive migrations off long-lived credentials and standing access. Success is measured in classes of exposure eliminated at the platform layer, not in shipping code for its own sake.\nPartner with Core Infrastructure, Compute, Data and product engineering teams to integrate paved paths into Kubernetes, CI/CD, and AWS and GCP environments across DoorDash, Wolt and Deliveroo.\nParticipate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation for tier-0 security services and raise the bar on Operational Excellence through monitoring, runbooks, incident response and root cause analysis.\nHelp enable the secure adoption of AI tooling and agentic workflows through access control and secrets brokering for agents.\nWe’re excited about you because…\n6+ years of experience as a Security, Infrastructure or Platform Engineer at an internet scale organization.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Security Engineering, a related field or equivalent work experience.\nStrong software engineering skills in one or more object oriented languages (e.g. Go, Java, Kotlin), building security tooling, controls and production services that meet business and regulatory requirements.\nHands-on experience with access management and secret storage systems, such as PAM, secrets management or key management platforms. Experience with Teleport or HashiCorp Vault is a plus.\nWorking knowledge of identity and authentication standards such as OIDC, SAML, mTLS and workload identity (e.g. SPIFFE, AWS IAM Roles, GCP Workload Identity).\nWorking knowledge of distributed systems concepts, including replication, consistency and distributed consensus (e.g. Raft, Paxos).\nExperience with Kubernetes, Terraform or other infrastructure as code, and AWS and/or GCP IAM.\nExperience with threat modeling and security design review, and hands-on experience performing root cause analysis for security incidents.\nExperience running highly available services with mature on-call practices.\nStrong problem solving for complex, systemic issues, and clear verbal and written communication skills for working across engineering teams.\nWhy You’ll Love Working at DoorDash\nWe are leaders - Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something everyone at DoorDash embraces and embodies.\nWe 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. \nWe 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.\nWe 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.\nWe are all DoorDash - The magic of DoorDash is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights. \nWe offer exceptional compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits.\nWe expect this position to be filled by 12/30/2026\nCompensation\nThe successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.\nIn addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.\nDoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 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 (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.\nTo learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.\nSee below for paid time off details:\nFor salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.\n For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).\nThe national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.\n$159,800—$235,000 USD\nAbout DoorDash\nAt DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users-from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.\nDoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.\nOur Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nWe’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.\nStatement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce - people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.\nIf you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.\n\nNotice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only\nWe used Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provided Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023. 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