Staff Software Engineer

DoorDash DoorDash · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · 315 Security Engineering

Staff Software Engineer on the Security Enablement Engineering team, responsible for architecting and building scalable software solutions that simplify complex security workflows, integrate global security technologies, and improve operational efficiency for security teams. This includes designing microservices, building automation pipelines, and developing APIs that enable secure integrations across infrastructure, applications and safety systems. The role also involves guiding technical direction, leading architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers.

What you'd actually do

  1. architect and build scalable software solutions that simplify complex security workflows, integrate global security technologies, and improve operational efficiency for security teams
  2. designing microservices, building automation pipelines, and developing APIs that enable secure integrations across infrastructure, applications and safety systems
  3. guide technical direction
  4. lead architectural decisions
  5. mentor engineers

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • distributed systems
  • microservices
  • platform engineering
  • infrastructure engineering
  • security engineering

Nice to have

  • security platforms
  • internal developer platforms
  • automation frameworks
  • APIs
  • identity platforms
  • secrets management systems
  • security telemetry pipelines
  • AI-assisted development tools
  • event-driven architectures
  • workflow orchestration systems
  • large-scale automation pipelines

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of experience
  • designing and operating distributed systems and microservices
  • internal platforms, developer tooling, or automation systems
  • Python
  • cloud infrastructure and services in AWS
  • Terraform
  • lead technical initiatives, influence architecture decisions, and mentor engineers
  • investigating complex system issues and improving service reliability