Senior Security Engineer, Red Team

📋 Job Overview

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 is paramount to the success of our business, and DoorDash Security aspires to be the world’s best security team. We are committed to protecting our people, partners, customers, and technologies with robust safeguards and unwavering vigilance.

🏢 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.

DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

🎯 The Role

The Senior Security Engineer, Red Team will be responsible for conducting threat intelligence-informed adversary emulations to simulate real-world cyber attacks and proactively identify security improvement opportunities in the DoorDash environment. This role will work closely with cross-functional teams across the company and assess the security posture of DoorDash’s critical assets and products.

This role operates with the necessary freedom and accountability to complete full-scope Red Team operations against any valuable objectives in the company, providing a crucial feedback loop for all efforts in upholding customer trust.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Plan and execute realistic adversary simulations using curated threat intelligence to assess security opportunities, and detection and response capabilities
• Hunt for vulnerabilities across AI systems, payment infrastructure, autonomous delivery hardware, and emerging technologies before adversaries do
• Exercise range of expertise to include cyber, insider, and fraud Red Team testing scenarios.
• Build custom tools, exploits, and payloads tailored to DoorDash's unique and evolving tech stack
• Partner with Blue Teams to escalate emerging threats and develop proactive detection or defensive strategies
• Advise leadership on emerging threats and shape the security strategy for one of the world's most complex logistics platforms

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Red Teaming and Purple Teaming
• You are passionate about offensive security and care about improving your craft every day
• You think like an adversary. You have deep, experiential knowledge of APT and insider threat TTPs, not just theoretical familiarity
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to secure diverse environments, providing feedback loops that articulate business risks and generate actionable intelligence
• You've run full-scope operations across multi-platform and cloud environments, and you know how to build the malware and tooling to support them
• Strong knowledge of one of Python, Golang, Rust, Kotlin, Java, or Powershell
• Experience using and developing tooling, methodologies and scalable infrastructure to support red team engagements capabilities (e.g. command and control frameworks, phishing environment, exploits)
• Experience with Command and Control (C2) frameworks
• Experience with Defense Evasion to bypass security tooling (e.g. Endpoint Detection and Response)
• Excellent understanding of information security operations related frameworks and standards (e.g., MITRE Att&ck)
• Experience providing technical leadership and guidance, and thinking strategically and analytically to solve problems
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
• Engages with a people-first approach, is able to facilitate a conversation rather than dictate it, and is empathetic to divergent viewpoints

🎁 Benefits

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.

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).

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

We will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.