Senior Security Engineer — Remote Self-Service Secrets

doordashusa; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join a proactive security platform team. You will design and operate core services that help engineers access infrastructure, manage secrets, and authenticate workloads securely.

The role emphasizes self-service tools and tight integration with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud environments, while maintaining high reliability and broad on-call coverage. You will work remotely within the United States and participate in a global on-call rotation,

Qualifications

• 6+ years in security, infra, or platform engineering in a large-scale internet environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and strengthen workflows for privileged access, secrets management, and identity services.
• Threat model, review, and test security services and integrations; drive remediation.
• Build self-service tools, SDKs, and integrations for temporary access and credentials.
• Lead migrations away from persistent credentials and standing access to reduce exposure.
• Integrate security workflows with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud IAM in collaboration with infra and product teams.
• Support operations with monitoring, runbooks, incident response, and on-call; secure AI agent access and secrets usage.

Skills

Security engineering

Go/Java/Kotlin

Access management

Identity standards

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

AWS/GCP IAM

Education

Degree in a related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

HashiCorp Vault

Teleport

Job description

DoorDash is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join a proactive security platform team. You will design and operate core services that help engineers access infrastructure, manage secrets, and authenticate workloads securely.

The role emphasizes self-service tools and tight integration with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud environments, while maintaining high reliability and broad on-call coverage. You will work remotely within the United States and participate in a global on-call rotation,