Senior Security Data Engineer — Cloud Telemetry & Pipelines

DoorDash; United States; On-site; 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 is seeking a senior security data/infra engineer for Global Cyber Defense to own multi-terabyte-per-day log pipelines across AWS and GCP, optimize cost, reliability, and schema, and deliver data products for threat hunting and incident response.

You will collaborate with teams across the US/UK, define SLOs, run pipelines as code, and build executive dashboards to prove reliability and performance. The role includes equity and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating high-volume data pipelines in production at multi-terabyte-per-day scale.
• 4+ years writing production software in Python, Go, Rust, or Java: services and tooling.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS and GCP including IaC and CI/CD ownership.
• Strong SQL and data modeling in columnar warehouses (Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift).
• Experience owning reliability for a platform, including on-call duties.
• Experience building executive dashboards and engineering metrics used for action.
• Leadership and project management across infrastructure, platform engineering, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Own multi-terabyte-per-day log pipelines across AWS and GCP: ingest, routing, enrichment, and onboarding sources.
• Control ingest cost and volume while preserving audit logs.
• Model security data and tune query performance in Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift.
• Ship production services and integrations (SIEM connectors, API clients, automation).
• Set and defend SLOs for log availability and build dashboards and alerting.
• Own infrastructure as code and CI/CD for pipelines and deployments.
• Build AI agents and automated runbooks to speed up triage and fixes.
• Enforce IAM and service account governance for cloud workloads.
• Lead cross-functional projects spanning infra, platform engineering, and incident response.
• Create and maintain standards and documentation; mentor engineers.

Skills

Data pipelines

Production software

Cloud platforms

SQL & data modeling

On-call reliability

Dashboards & metrics

Leadership & PM

Security telemetry

Tools

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

GitHub

GitLab

Bitbucket

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Job description

DoorDash is seeking a senior security data/infra engineer for Global Cyber Defense to own multi-terabyte-per-day log pipelines across AWS and GCP, optimize cost, reliability, and schema, and deliver data products for threat hunting and incident response.

You will collaborate with teams across the US/UK, define SLOs, run pipelines as code, and build executive dashboards to prove reliability and performance. The role includes equity and a comprehensive benefits package.