Staff Security Engineer, Security Enablement

DoorDash is hiring a Staff Security Engineer to design and deliver strategic, scalable security services across physical security systems and cloud, network, identity, and reporting infrastructure. The role owns architecture and execution of multi-domain security initiatives, partners with engineering and operations teams, and drives delivery, risk management, and technical direction.

Responsibilities:

• Own the design of our physical security systems integration layer — such as access control (PACS) and video management (VMS) platforms, the APIs they expose, and the connectors that carry their data into our systems of record
• Own end-to-end design and delivery of multi-domain security services spanning physical security systems, hardware provisioning and site readiness, cloud and network infrastructure, identity and access management, key management, and the reporting/observability layers on top. You’ll bring expertise deploying security solutions at scale across many of these domains
• Partner with our software engineers from design through implementation, ensuring the right security outcomes are achieved. Propose and review architecture, design highly resilient, secure and scalable solutions, deliver proactive feedback to drive continuous improvement, hold the interface contracts, and support services in production ensuring operational excellence
• Own the cloud footprint of the security stack. The AWS services that host and scale these systems, the identity and network boundaries around them
• Own execution of complex and ambiguous security initiatives through detailed working-backwards plans. Start from the outcome and the date, then derive the dependency chain, critical path, owners, and the decisions that must land before each gate
• Look around corners. Surface and manage delivery risks before they escalate. Keep a risk register that’s well managed with an owner, a mitigation, and a delivery date
• Unblock, and escalate when unblocking requires it. Resolve most cross-team friction through direct collaboration. Escalate early, with a recommendation, and tradeoffs to leadership. Escalation is a deliberate tool, not a last resort
• Be the single source of truth on status. Concise written updates for senior leaders: what is on track, what is at risk, what changed, what decision we need. Manage stakeholder expectations from leadership to individual teams, apply strong problem solving and negotiation skills, and earn the trust of partners and teams
• Drive technical decisions to closure and operate through ambiguity. Frame the trade-offs, make recommendations on tooling (build/buy) and document what was decided and why
• Contribute to the vision, strategy, technical direction, and success metrics. Mentor engineers and program managers across GSS and partner teams. Review their plans, coach them on written status and risk framing, and help continually raise the operational and security bar. Develop shared goals with security partners, and identify solutions that optimize or automate manual, inefficient processes

Requirements:

• 6+ years in security or infrastructure engineering, including 4+ leading multi-team technical programs
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Security Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent years of experience in a related technical field
• Expertise with cloud-based services and infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, etc.)
• Hands-on depth with enterprise access control and video platforms (Lenel, Genetec, Milestone, or peers) and the APIs and integrations around them
• Project planning and execution skills that include JIRA experience, reviewing technical design documents, security controls, estimating, and scheduling
• Physical security, access control, or safety-technology programs; a security or trust-and-safety organization; standing up program practice where none existed
• Proficiency in SQL data analysis, Python coding, and other automation tooling
• Experience with building Agentic workflows