Senior Software Engineer, Proactive Security - Platform

Doordashusa; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

401(k) matching

Parity with parental leave

Wellness benefits

Commuter benefits

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Proactive Security - Platform to build the paved paths that engineers use to access infrastructure, manage secrets and authenticate services. You will join a global Security Engineering Platform team responsible for tier-0 security services and self-service tooling that integrates with Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS and GCP across DoorDash, Wolt and Deliveroo.

This US remote role reports to the Manager of Proactive Security Engineering Platform.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a Software, Infrastructure or Security Platform Engineer at an internet scale organization.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Security Engineering, a related field or equivalent work experience.
• Strong software engineering skills in Go (or Kotlin, Java, Python), building production services and developer tooling.
• Hands-on experience building or operating access management and secret storage systems, such as PAM, secrets management or key management platforms.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, including replication and distributed consensus (e.g. Raft, Paxos).
• Working knowledge of identity and authentication standards such as OIDC, SAML, mTLS and workload identity (e.g. SPIFFE, AWS IAM Roles, GCP Workload Identity).
• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform or other infrastructure as code, and AWS and/or GCP IAM.
• Track record of building internal platforms or paved paths that other engineers adopted, with a focus on developer experience.
• Experience running highly available, no-downtime services with mature on‑call practices.
• Clear verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to drive adoption across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate paved paths for privileged access, secrets management and identity on top of our access management and secret storage platforms.
• Build self-service tooling, SDKs, Terraform modules and integrations that let engineering teams adopt just-in-time access, short-lived credentials and dynamic secrets without filing a ticket.
• Design and operate highly available distributed systems, including replication, consistency and consensus, that underpin tier-0 services.
• Drive migrations off long-lived credentials and standing access. Success is measured in classes of exposure eliminated at the platform layer, not in shipping code for its own sake.
• Partner with Core Infrastructure, Compute, Data and product engineering teams to integrate paved paths into Kubernetes, CI/CD, and AWS and GCP environments across DoorDash, Wolt and Deliveroo.
• Participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation for tier-0 security services and raise the bar on Operational Excellence through monitoring, runbooks, incident response and root cause analysis.
• Help enable the secure adoption of AI tooling and agentic workflows through access control and secrets brokering for agents.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

Terraform

IAM

Secrets management

On-call

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Teleport

HashiCorp Vault

Job description

About the Team

At DoorDash we're building the industry's most scalable and reliable delivery network to support our three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and Dashers. Security Engineering is paramount to the success of our business, and DoorDash Security aspires to be one of the world's most admired Security Engineering teams. 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 DoorDash's multi-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and Dashers.

About the Role

Our Proactive Security Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Proactive Security - Platform to build the paved paths that engineers across DoorDash, Wolt and Deliveroo use to access infrastructure, manage secrets and authenticate services.

You will be part of our inclusive, collaborative global Security Engineering Platform team responsible for building and operating tier-0 security services for access management, secret storage and identity, including our in-house Access Platform, Teleport and HashiCorp Vault. Your job is to make the secure path the easiest path: self-service, well documented, and built into the tooling engineers already use every day.

This is a US remote position reporting directly to the Manager of our Proactive Security Engineering Platform team.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Design, build and operate paved paths for privileged access, secrets management and identity on top of our access management and secret storage platforms.
• Build self-service tooling, SDKs, Terraform modules and integrations that let engineering teams adopt just-in-time access, short-lived credentials and dynamic secrets without filing a ticket.
• Design and operate highly available distributed systems, including replication, consistency and consensus, that underpin tier-0 services.
• Drive migrations off long-lived credentials and standing access. Success is measured in classes of exposure eliminated at the platform layer, not in shipping code for its own sake.
• Partner with Core Infrastructure, Compute, Data and product engineering teams to integrate paved paths into Kubernetes, CI/CD, and AWS and GCP environments across DoorDash, Wolt and Deliveroo.
• Participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation for tier-0 security services and raise the bar on Operational Excellence through monitoring, runbooks, incident response and root cause analysis.
• Help enable the secure adoption of AI tooling and agentic workflows through access control and secrets brokering for agents.

We're excited about you because…

• 6+ years of experience as a Software, Infrastructure or Security Platform Engineer at an internet scale organization.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Security Engineering, a related field or equivalent work experience.
• Strong software engineering skills in Go (or Kotlin, Java, Python), building production services and developer tooling.
• Hands‑on experience building or operating access management and secret storage systems, such as PAM, secrets management or key management platforms. Experience with Teleport or HashiCorp Vault is a plus.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, including replication, consistency and distributed consensus (e.g. Raft, Paxos).
• Working knowledge of identity and authentication standards such as OIDC, SAML, mTLS and workload identity (e.g. SPIFFE, AWS IAM Roles, GCP Workload Identity).
• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform or other infrastructure as code, and AWS and/or GCP IAM.
• Track record of building internal platforms or paved paths that other engineers chose to adopt, with a strong focus on developer experience.
• Experience running highly available, no-downtime services with mature on‑call practices.
• Clear verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to drive adoption across engineering teams.

Why You'll Love Working at DoorDash

• We are leaders – Leadership is not limited to our management team. It's something everyone at DoorDash embraces and embodies.
• We are doers – We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do, on every project, every day.
• We are learners – We're not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it's scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job, no matter if we've been in a role for one year or one minute.
• We are customer‑obsessed – Our mission is to grow and empower local economies. We are committed to our customers, merchants, and dashers and believe in connecting people with possibility.
• We are all DoorDash – The magic of DoorDash is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights.
• We offer exceptional compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits.

We expect this position to be filled by 12/31/2026

Compensation

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.

DoorDash 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 Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family‑forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.