Senior Security Engineer, Protective Services — Remote (US)

About the Team DoorDash is one of the world's most trusted on-demand logistics platforms. The Global Safety and Security team keeps it that way by protecting our people, property, operations, brand, and reputation across all our markets. We manage risk and create value through agility, technology, and a people-first approach. Our DoorDash, Deliveroo, and Wolt brands now span more than 40 countries, dozens of offices, and tens of thousands of employees. The convergence of enterprise technology, personal devices, connected homes, and physical security creates a distinct and increasingly complex risk environment. Protective Services sits within this team and protects our executives, their families, residences, travel, and the operations that support them. This role brings dedicated security engineering rigor to that environment. About the Role We are hiring a Senior Security Engineer to strengthen the security posture of the residential and personal technology environments supported by Protective Services. You will focus on executive residences, personal and managed devices, connected-home systems, and the points where personal and enterprise environments intersect. This is a hands-on security engineering role. You will develop threat models, identify meaningful attack paths and failure modes, and design, implement, and validate controls that reduce the resulting risk. The work spans identity, endpoints, residential networks, wireless infrastructure, smart-home and consumer IoT systems, vulnerability management, monitoring, and secure administration. You will work closely with other security engineering functions to apply established security patterns to residential environments and help develop fit-for-purpose approaches where enterprise controls do not translate directly. You will also partner with IT, Privacy, Legal, and trusted vendors to implement safeguards that are technically effective, supportable, privacy-conscious, and appropriate for a residence. You are excited about this opportunity because you will… • Develop threat models and security requirements. Analyze protected assets, identities, data flows, trust boundaries, relevant threat actors, attack paths, and likely failure modes across residences, personal devices, home networks, smart-home platforms, physical security technologies, and connections to DoorDash systems. Translate that analysis into prioritized technical requirements and control recommendations. • Develop residential security architectures. Create and maintain repeatable architecture patterns for residential networks, wireless infrastructure, personal and managed endpoints, connected-home systems, secure remote administration, and integrations with enterprise security services. Adapt Enterprise Security standards where appropriate and document exceptions or compensating controls where residential constraints require a different approach. • Design and implement security controls. Engineer layered controls across identity, endpoints, residential networks, wireless infrastructure, remote access, vendor access, and consumer IoT. Translate threat models into concrete configurations, integrations, and automation, and validate that the resulting controls interrupt the attack paths they were designed to address. • Identify and remediate security weaknesses. Assess residential and personal technology environments for exploitable attack paths, unsafe trust relationships, vulnerable configurations, and gaps in control coverage. Prioritize remediation according to threat and potential impact, implement corrective changes directly or with the appropriate partners, and validate that the underlying risk has been addressed. • Turn testing and incidents into stronger controls. Support Red Team and other assessment functions by providing architecture context and helping define relevant validation objectives. Analyze resulting findings, identify root causes, design and implement corrective controls, and validate completed changes. Apply lessons from individual findings to other similarly configured environments so that remediation produces broader and durable risk reduction. • Improve security visibility and response readiness. Identify useful, proportionate telemetry from residential and personal environments; integrate relevant signals with established security workflows; and develop practical detection, escalation, and response procedures. Balance security visibility with privacy, discretion, usability, and the operational realities of a residence. • Work across Protective Services and other security functions. Partner with Threat Intelligence to incorporate relevant threat information; align cyber and physical safeguards with teams across Protective Services; and reuse established capabilities and patterns with IT and Enterprise Security. Clearly communicate technical risks, architecture decisions, implementation tradeoffs, control gaps, and remediation status to relevant technical and non-technical stakeholders. We are excited about you because you bring… • 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience in complex environments. • Proven ability to take security projects from threat analysis through implementation, testing, documentation, and operational handoff. • Experience designing and implementing controls across areas such as IAM, endpoint security, network segmentation, vulnerability management, detection and response, and secure remote access. • Strong threat-modeling skills, including assessing assets, data flows, trust boundaries, attack paths, and compensating controls. • Experience securing residential, wireless, and connected-device environments, including Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, IoT, cameras, alarms, and access-control systems. • Working proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language for security automation and operational tooling. • Track record of remediating security findings and validating outcomes. • Ability to handle sensitive work with sound judgment, discretion, and clear cross-functional communication. • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. Compensation The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future. In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information. DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). 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. To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here . See below for paid time off details: • 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; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week). The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado. $159,800 — $235,000 USD About DoorDash 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. DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. 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