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Staff Security Engineer, Proactive Security

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Staff Security Engineer, Proactive Security in USA

  • DoorDash
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain core security products including remote access management, secrets management, tokenization, knowledge graphs, and access control.
  • Partner with infrastructure, product engineering, legal, security, and vendor teams to create secure development paths and feedback mechanisms.
  • Lead the technical direction and roadmap for the assigned area of ownership.
  • Maintain operational excellence, minimize downtime, participate in on-call rotations, and respond to on-call events.
  • Manage security product feature requests through triage, validation, design, testing, and implementation.
  • Drive improvements to engineering standards and productivity, including leveraging LLMs.
  • Mentor and coach earlier-career engineers while enforcing high operational and software engineering standards.
  • Lead root cause analysis and resolve complex systemic security and infrastructure issues.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience as a software engineer in an information security or infrastructure engineering discipline.
  • Demonstrated success improving an organization’s infrastructure security posture.
  • Broad technical experience across infrastructure and security domains in large production environments.
  • Strong distributed systems and platform development skills using Java, Scala, Kotlin, or Golang.
  • Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform.
  • Expertise with cloud infrastructure and management in AWS and GCP.
  • Exceptional analytical, investigative, and root cause analysis abilities.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills for reviewing designs with cloud infrastructure, security, and engineering personnel.

Benefits

  • US remote work arrangement.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and basic life insurance, and a mental health program.
  • 401(k) plan with employer matching, wellness benefits, commuter benefits matching, and family-forming assistance.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave, paid time off, paid sick leave, and 11 paid holidays.
  • Flexible paid time off for salaried roles.
  • Equity grant opportunities in addition to base salary.

Salary: $194k - $285k/yr

DoorDash

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