Senior Software Engineer, Proactive Security - Platform

DoorDash; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Wellness benefits

Commuter benefits

Paid time off

Paid sick leave

Medical/dental/vision benefits

11 holidays

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Proactive Security - Platform to design and run paved paths for privileged access, secret storage, and identity. You’ll build self-service tooling, SDKs, and Terraform modules to empower engineers across DoorDash, Wolt and Deliveroo with just-in-time access and short-lived credentials.

This role is US remote, reporting to the Proactive Security Engineering Platform team.

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Kotlin

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Security platform engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Teleport

HashiCorp Vault

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS IAM

GCP IAM

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 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.

Compensation

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado. $159,800—$235,000 USD

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. To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.

See below for paid time off details: For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year. For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).

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

About DoorDash

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door‑to‑door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.

Statement of Non-discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status.

Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on protected categories, we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office.

Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash.

We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender-non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently‑abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.

Pursuant to the San Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

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