Senior Software Engineer, Proactive Security - Platform

📋 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 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 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

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.

✅ Key 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.

📌 Required 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. 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.

🎁 Benefits

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

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.