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Staff Security Engineer, Proactive Security - AI
Doordash INC · 🇺🇸 United States - Remote · Remote
Sponsorship verdict
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 396 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 147 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Doordash INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles88 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $154k–$188k, median $188k. Most were filed at wage level I (41%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 396 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 147 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 Engineering is paramount to the success of our business, and DoorDash Security aspires to be one the world’s most admired Security Engineering team. We are committed to building the world's most trusted on-demand, logistics engine for delivery! We're expanding our team of great minds to help us secure and maintain a 24x7, no downtime, global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash’s multi-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and drivers. About the Role Our Proactive Security Engineering team is looking for a Staff Security Engineer, Proactive Security to execute on AI Security Product Engineering following a forward deployed engineering Pod model. You will be a part of our inclusive, collaborative forward deployed engineering team responsible for building “paved road” Security Product controls directly into our AI surfaces for our Customer, Merchant and Dasher products to ensure a safe, secure and resilient delivery network. This is not a classic Product Security role performing reviews and operating platform products, this is a forward deployed model where we operate in Pods that focus on domain code bases to build and ship AI Security Products including Hardened Product Agents, AI Guardrails, MCP Gateways and many upcoming AI Hardening initiatives. This is a US remote position reporting directly to the Manager of our Proactive Security Engineering team. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… • Co-lead the technical direction and roadmap for secure and responsible building of AI Security Products at DoorDash. • Partner cross-functionally with Product Engineering, Legal, Security Engineering Platform, Data teams and XFN partners to build “paved road” proactive security controls that enable secure by design AI products into DoorDash eco-system. Examples of AI Security Products this team has built include Hardened Product Agents, AI Guardrails, MCP Gateways and many upcoming AI Hardening initiatives. • Execute rigorous cross-brand AI enabled vulnerability discovery, multi-level harnesses and automated remediation to protect the company against Mythos-era equipped adversaries. • Mentor and coach earlier career engineers, setting and enforcing exceptional standards for Operational Excellence and Software Engineering. We’re excited about you because… • 10+ years of experience as a Security Product Engineer at an Internet scale organization of demonstrated technical leadership building outcomes at global scale. • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Security Engineering, a related field or equivalent work experience. • Embed with product teams to design, build, and deploy security controls for consumer, merchant, and Dasher products. • Develop reusable “paved road” solutions that help teams build secure AI products by default. • Partner with Product Engineering, Legal, Data, Security Platform, and other teams to translate security and regulatory requirements into practical engineering controls. • Demonstrated technical leadership in designing scalable, AI enabled and ergonomic Security Review threat modeling. • Hands-on experience securing LLM or agentic systems, or demonstrated ability to move quickly into the space from adjacent depth in authorization, sandboxing, or untrusted input handling. • Demonstrated builder in one or more object oriented languages (e.g. Go, Java) designing technical Security Engineering controls and processes to meet business and regulatory requirements. • Exceptional problem solving of complex, systemic issues that require audacious thinking, rigor and creativity. • Exceptional a