Senior Software Engineer, Proactive Security

About Wolt

At Wolt, we create technology that brings joy, simplicity and earnings to the neighborhoods of the world. In 2014 we started with delivery of restaurant food. Now we’re building the delivery of (almost) everything and you’ll find us in over 500 cities in 30 countries around the world. In 2022 we joined forces with DoorDash and together we keep on dreaming big and expanding across the globe.

Working at Wolt isn’t always easy, but it’s definitely exciting. Here you’ll learn more, build more, and ship more than in most other companies. You’ll be challenged a lot, but also have a lot of fun on the way. So, if you’re a self-starter with drive and entrepreneurial spirit, this could be the ride of your life.

At Wolt, as a part of Doordash, we’re building the industry’s most scalable and reliable delivery platform to support our three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and courier partners. 

What makes our team unique:

• Our global Security team aspires to be the world’s most admired security team, with members across EU, UK and North America (operating as Wolt, Deliveroo and Doordash).
• We’re shaping our next generation infrastructure that is hardened from the ground up. This is a rare opportunity - no legacy tech or off-the-shelf product solutions. There is a lot to do around this new development as well as our “classic” platforms of the three companies.
• The greater team is not just information security - we’re more holistic, and also physical security and safety are a part of our global operations.

This position is open in our Wolt hubs in Berlin, Germany, or Helsinki, Finland, and will be a part of the Global Security Engineering team.

Day-to-day in this role you’ll:

• Build and maintain core security products, including but not limited to Remote Access Management, Secrets Management, Tokenization, Encryption and Knowledge Graphs, Access Control at global 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 T0 services with excellence, rigor and durable standards to ensure minimal to no 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.

Over time, your role can evolve depending on your interests and skills. Our company is  a large place and there’s a lot to do!

As the Security team sometimes needs to address high-priority security issues as well as ensure the availability of the components we have built, this position includes an on-call duty. On-call compensation and terms will be agreed separately in accordance with the local employment law.

Our humble expectations* 

• 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 with minimal oversight.

Next steps

The position will be filled as soon as we find the right person, so make sure to apply as soon as you realize you really want to join us!

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We’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.

Beware of recruitment scams: DoorDash, Deliveroo, and Wolt will never ask you to pay money or share sensitive financial information during hiring - learn more about our legitimate recruiting process at Recruitment Scam Awareness - DoorDash.