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Senior Security Engineer, Proactive Security - Platform

DoorDash

Location

remote, Los Angeles, CA

Type

Full-time

Posted

11/4/2026

Compensation

$159,800 - $235,000 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202697.5% approval+1% YoY
💎 Strong sponsor

Job description

The Senior Security Engineer, Proactive Security - Platform role at DoorDash focuses on building secure access management and secret storage solutions for the company's infrastructure. The position is part of the Proactive Security Engineering team, which aims to create self-service tools that enhance security while simplifying access for engineers. This role involves collaborating with various engineering teams to integrate security services into existing workflows and ensuring the resilience of these services. The position is remote and reports to the Manager of the Proactive Security Engineering Platform team.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience as a Security, Infrastructure or 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 one or more object-oriented languages such as Go, Java, or Kotlin.
  • Hands-on experience with access management and secret storage systems.
  • Working knowledge of identity and authentication standards such as OIDC, SAML, and mTLS.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS and/or GCP IAM.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build and harden paved paths for privileged access, secrets management and identity.
  • Threat model, security review and test tier-0 security services and drive findings through to remediation.
  • Build self-service tooling, SDKs, Terraform modules and integrations for engineering teams.
  • Partner with Core Infrastructure, Compute, Data and product engineering teams for integration.
  • Participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation for tier-0 security services.
  • Help enable the secure adoption of AI tooling and agentic workflows.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Doordash Inc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

92

FY2026

Approval rate

97.5%

FY2026

LCA certified

140

FY2026

Entry-level share

20.7%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

+1%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-74%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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