Senior Software Engineer, Proactive Security

About the role

Deliveroo, now part of DoorDash, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Proactive Security to join its London-based Security Engineering team. The role reports directly to the European Senior Manager of the team and covers the Product and Cloud Security domains, building "security paved paths" to keep the delivery network safe, reliable and resilient.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain core security products such as Remote Access Management, Secrets Management, Tokenization, Encryption, Knowledge Graphs and Access Control at global scale.
• Partner with Core Infrastructure, Product Engineering, Legal, Security teams and vendor partners to embed secure design practices into product and infrastructure development.
• Lead the technical direction and roadmap for your area of ownership.
• Maintain high operational excellence so T0 services run with minimal to no downtime, and take part in on-call rotation.
• Manage the full lifecycle of security feature requests, from triage and validation through design, testing and implementation.
• Influence engineering standards and use advances and LLMs to improve productivity.
• Mentor and coach earlier-career engineers on operational excellence and software engineering standards.

Required profile

• Track record of improving a company's infrastructure security posture.
• Breadth of technical experience across infrastructure and security areas in large production environments.
• Comfortable exercising independent judgment and discretion with minimal oversight.

Required skills

• Distributed systems and platform development in Java/Scala/Kotlin, Golang or Python.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• AWS cloud infrastructure and management.
• Root cause analysis and strong analytical and investigative skills.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and DoorDash RSUs.
• A low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment with flexible working and continuous learning.