Staff Security Engineer, Proactive Security - AI

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 the world’s most admired Security Engineering team. We are committed to building the worlds most trusted on-demand, logistics engine for delivery! Were 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 drivers.
Our Proactive Security Engineering team is looking for a

Staff Security Engineer, Proactive Security

to execute on

AI Security Product Engineering

following a forward deployed engineering Pod model.
You will be a part of our inclusive, collaborative forward deployed engineering team responsible for building “paved road” Security Product controls directly into our AI surfaces for our Customer, Merchant and Dasher products to ensure a safe, secure and resilient delivery network. This is not a classic Product Security role performing reviews and operating platform products, this is a forward deployed model where we operate in Pods that focus on domain code bases to build and ship AI Security Products including Hardened Product Agents, AI Guardrails, MCP Gateways and many upcoming AI Hardening initiatives.
This is a US remote position reporting directly to the Manager of our Proactive Security Engineering team.
Co-lead the technical direction and roadmap for secure and responsible building of AI Security Products at DoorDash.
Partner cross-functionally with Product Engineering, Legal, Security Engineering Platform, Data teams and XFN partners to build “paved road” proactive security controls that enable secure by design AI products into DoorDash eco-system. Examples of AI Security Products this team has built include Hardened Product Agents, AI Guardrails, MCP Gateways and many upcoming AI Hardening initiatives.
Execute rigorous cross-brand AI enabled vulnerability discovery, multi-level harnesses and automated remediation to protect the company against Mythos-era equipped adversaries.
Mentor and coach earlier career engineers, setting and enforcing exceptional standards for Operational Excellence and Software Engineering.
10+ years of experience as a Security Product Engineer at an Internet scale organization of demonstrated technical leadership building outcomes at global scale.
~ Master’s degree in Computer Science, Security Engineering, a related field or equivalent work experience.
~ Develop reusable “paved road” solutions that help teams build secure AI products by default.
~ Partner with Product Engineering, Legal, Data, Security Platform, and other teams to translate security and regulatory requirements into practical engineering controls.
~ Demonstrated technical leadership in designing scalable, AI enabled and ergonomic Security Review threat modeling.
~ Demonstrated builder in one or more object oriented languages (e.g. Go, Java) designing technical Security Engineering controls and processes to meet business and regulatory requirements.
~ Exceptional analytical and investigative abilities with hands-on experience leading root cause analysis for security incidents and driving long term roadmaps to remediate.

~ Exceptional verbal and written communication skills - you will confidently shape and lead the Security Product Engineering within your assigned AI Security domain across core engineering and product teams to security preserving control outcomes.

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 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.
In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. 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.
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; 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.
Were 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.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. 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. stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. 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.
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