Senior Security Engineer, Red Team

About the Team

At DoorDash we’re building the industry’s most scalable and reliable delivery network to support our three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and Dashers. Security is paramount to the success of our business, and DoorDash Security aspires to be the world’s best security team. We are committed to protecting our people, partners, customers, and technologies with robust safeguards and unwavering vigilance. 

About the Role

The Senior Security Engineer, Red Team will be responsible for conducting threat intelligence-informed adversary emulations to simulate real-world cyber attacks and proactively identify security improvement opportunities in the DoorDash environment. This role will work closely with cross-functional teams across the company and assess the security posture of DoorDash’s critical assets and products.

This role operates with the necessary freedom and accountability to complete full-scope Red Team operations against any valuable objectives in the company, providing a crucial feedback loop for all efforts in upholding customer trust.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Plan and execute realistic adversary simulations using curated threat intelligence to assess security opportunities, and detection and response capabilities
• Hunt for vulnerabilities across AI systems, payment infrastructure, autonomous delivery hardware, and emerging technologies before adversaries do
• Exercise range of expertise to include cyber, insider, and fraud Red Team testing scenarios.
• Build custom tools, exploits, and payloads tailored to DoorDash's unique and evolving tech stack
• Partner with Blue Teams to escalate emerging threats and develop proactive detection or defensive strategies
• Advise leadership on emerging threats and shape the security strategy for one of the world's most complex logistics platforms

We’re excited about you because…

• 5+ years of experience in Red Teaming and Purple Teaming
• You are passionate about offensive security and care about improving your craft every day
• You think like an adversary. You have deep, experiential knowledge of APT and insider threat TTPs, not just theoretical familiarity
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to secure diverse environments, providing feedback loops that articulate business risks and generate actionable intelligence
• You've run full-scope operations across multi-platform and cloud environments, and you know how to build the malware and tooling to support them
• Strong knowledge of one of Python, Golang, Rust, Kotlin, Java, or Powershell 
• Experience using and developing tooling, methodologies and scalable infrastructure to support red team engagements capabilities (e.g. command and control frameworks, phishing environment, exploits)
• Experience with Command and Control (C2) frameworks
• Experience with Defense Evasion to bypass security tooling (e.g. Endpoint Detection and Response)
• Excellent understanding of information security operations related frameworks and standards (e.g., MITRE Att&ck)
• Experience providing technical leadership and guidance, and thinking strategically and analytically to solve problems
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
• Engages with a people-first approach, is able to facilitate a conversation rather than dictate it, and is empathetic to divergent viewpoints

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis.

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