The Staff Security Engineer role at DoorDash involves leading threat modeling, hardening, and operation of security services within the Product and Cloud Security domains. The position is part of an inclusive and collaborative global team focused on building secure and resilient delivery networks. This remote role in the US or Canada emphasizes operational excellence and the management of security vulnerabilities. The engineer will also mentor junior team members and influence the adoption of secure practices across the organization.

• 8+ years of experience as a security engineer in a product security or infrastructure security discipline.
• Demonstrated track record of driving foundational improvements to a company’s infrastructure security posture.
• Breadth of technical experience across various infrastructure and security areas running in large production environments.
• Deep understanding of each OWASP top 10 vulnerability, distributed systems security, and design.
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines to automate security control enforcement and testing.
• Proficiency in analyzing code, architecture, and designs from a security perspective.
• Well-versed with scripting languages (e.g., Python) and other programming languages (e.g., Java), with Golang experience being a plus.
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code tooling like Terraform.
• Expertise with cloud infrastructure and management in GCP and AWS.
• Experience solving complex, systemic issues that require creative thinking and solutions.
• Exceptional analytical and investigative abilities with hands-on experience leading root cause analysis.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Threat model, design, harden, and operationalize Product and Cloud Security services and controls.
• Define, document, and implement security standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Partner cross-functionally with various teams to embed secure design practices.
• Lead the technical direction and roadmap execution for assigned areas of ownership.
• Build and maintain high Operational Excellence to ensure minimal downtime.
• Participate in on-call rotation and respond to on-call events with urgency.
• Manage the lifecycle of product and cloud security vulnerabilities.
• Influence and enable the secure adoption of LLMs and AI tools.
• Mentor and coach earlier career engineers, setting high standards for Operational Excellence and Security Engineering.