Remote Senior Security Engineer, Proactive Platform

DoorDash, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 160,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan with employer matching

Paid parental leave

Wellness benefits

Commuter benefits match

Paid time off

Job summary

DoorDash, Inc. is seeking a Senior Security Engineer, Proactive Security - Platform to build and operate tier-0 security services for access management, secret storage and identity.

You will create self-service tooling, integrate with Teleport and HashiCorp Vault, and drive secure, just-in-time access across DoorDash’s global infrastructure. The role reports to the Manager of the Proactive Security Engineering Platform team and supports secure adoption of AI tooling, with on-call rotations and a

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a Security, Infrastructure or Platform Engineer at an internet-scale organization.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Security Engineering or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Strong software engineering skills in one or more object oriented languages (Go/Java/Kotlin) and building security tooling.
• Hands-on experience with access management and secret storage systems (PAM, secrets management, key management); Teleport or Vault a plus.
• Working knowledge of identity and authentication standards (OIDC, SAML, mTLS, workload identity).
• Knowledge of distributed systems concepts (Raft, Paxos).
• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP IAM.
• Threat modeling and security design review; on-call for tier-0 security services.

Responsibilities

• Design and harden paved paths for privileged access, secrets management and identity.
• Threat model and security review of tier-0 services and integrations, driving remediation.
• Build self-service tooling, SDKs, Terraform modules and integrations for just-in-time access and dynamic secrets.
• Help migrate off long-lived credentials and standing access at the platform level.
• Collaborate with Core Infra, Compute, Data and product teams to integrate paths into Kubernetes, CI/CD and cloud environments.
• Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotation for tier-0 security services and improve incident response.

Skills

Security engineering

Kubernetes

Terraform

Identity & access management

Secret management

Go/Java/Kotlin

Threat modeling

On-call

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Teleport

HashiCorp Vault

Terraform

AWS IAM

GCP IAM

Job description

DoorDash, Inc. is seeking a Senior Security Engineer, Proactive Security - Platform to build and operate tier-0 security services for access management, secret storage and identity.

You will create self-service tooling, integrate with Teleport and HashiCorp Vault, and drive secure, just-in-time access across DoorDash’s global infrastructure. The role reports to the Manager of the Proactive Security Engineering Platform team and supports secure adoption of AI tooling, with on-call rotations and a