Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DoorDash is a technology and logistics company building a scalable delivery network for consumers, merchants, and Dashers. The Staff Security Engineer will lead the technical direction of AI Security Product Engineering, build proactive security controls into AI products, partner with cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Embed with product teams to design, build, and deploy security controls for consumer, merchant, and Dasher products
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Demonstrated technical leadership in designing scalable, AI enabled and ergonomic Security Review threat modeling
- Hands-on experience securing LLM or agentic systems, or demonstrated ability to move quickly into the space from adjacent depth in authorization, sandboxing, or untrusted input handling
- 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 problem solving of complex, systemic issues that require audacious thinking, rigor and creativity
- 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
Benefits
- Opportunities for equity grants
- A 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits match
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability and basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance
- A mental health program
- 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 and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked.
- Premium healthcare
- Wellness expense reimbursement
- Paid parental leave
- This is a US remote position
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