Staff Security Engineer, Proactive Security

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.

Our Security Engineering team is looking for a Staff Security Engineer to lead threat modeling, hardening 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.

• Threat model, design, harden, and operationalize Product and Cloud Security services and controls at DoorDash scale.
• Define, document and implement security standards, guidelines and procedures to design and implement automated security controls and remediation tools with rigor and developer ergonomics.
• 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 execution 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 product and cloud security vulnerabilities, from identification, triage, and drive remediation, reporting and metrics.
• Influence and enable the secure and responsible adoption of LLMs and AI tools.
• Mentor and coach earlier career engineers, setting high standards for Operational Excellence and Security Engineering.

• 8+ years of experience as a security engineer in a product security or infrastructure security discipline.
• Able to demonstrate a track record of driving foundational improvements to a company’s infrastructure security posture.
• Breadth of technical experience across various infrastructure and security areas running in large production environments.
• Deep understanding of each OWASP top 10 vulnerability, distributed systems security and design.
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines to automate security control enforcement and testing. 
• You proficient in analyzing code, architecture and designs from a security perspective
• Well versed with scripting languages (e.g. Python) and other programming languages (e.g. Java). Golang experience is a plus.
• Strong experience with infrastructure as a code tooling like Terraform.
• Expertise with cloud infrastructure and management in GCP and 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 - you can understand and review design documents with respect to cloud infrastructure with engineering personnel.  

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