Software Engineer, Proactive Security

At Door Dash 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 Door Dash 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 Door Dash’s multi‑sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and drivers.

Our Security Engineering team is looking for a Software Engineer to lead the design, development and operation of security services within Door Dash’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.

• Build and maintain core security products, including but not limited to Remote Access Management, Secrets Management, Tokenization, and Knowledge Graphs, Access Control at Door Dash 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.

• 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.

The 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.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

Door Dash 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…