Principal Privacy Engineer

About The Team

At DoorDash, we are 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 most admired security 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 dashers.

About The Role

Our Security Engineering team is looking for a Principal Privacy Engineer to set and lead the technical direction for privacy engineering at DoorDash globally.

You will be a part of our inclusive, collaborative global team responsible for building “paved road” privacy preserving controls to ensure a safe, privacy preserving and resilient delivery network. This is a US or Canada remote position reporting directly to the Director of our Security Engineering team.

You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will…

• Set and execute the technical vision for Privacy Engineering, ensuring alignment with DoorDash business objectives.
• Lead the overall global privacy engineering direction and roadmap execution.
• Be the foremost technical expert to design, influence and ship practical privacy preserving controls with rigor and developer ergonomics.
• Partner cross-functionally with Core Infrastructure, Product Engineering, Legal, Security, Data teams and partners to build “paved road” privacy preserving controls that enable privacy by design practices into the product and infrastructure development process.
• Build and maintain high Operational Excellence (OE) privacy services to ensure we operate with excellence, rigor and durable standards to ensure minimal downtime.
• Influence and enable the secure and responsible adoption of LLMs and AI tools from a privacy preserving perspective.

We’re Excited About You Because…

• 15+ years of experience as a Principal Privacy Engineer at an Internet scale organization with demonstrated technical leadership in applications of privacy enhancing technologies, machine learning, and analytical techniques for privacy assurances and validation at scale.
• Track record of shifting the industry in how Internet scale companies deliver privacy preserving experiences across global economies.
• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Privacy, or a related field.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in Data Classification, Inventory, Sharing, and Deletion.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in Technical Data Governance (Data Scanning), Data Protection (Encryption, Pseudonomization, Crypto Shredding), Privacy Enhancing Controls (PETs), and Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs).
• Demonstrated technical leadership designing technical privacy engineering controls and processes to meet required regulatory requirements such as Right to Be Forgotten, and Navigating Privacy Frameworks (GDPR, CCPA, DSA, etc.)
• Demonstrated technical leadership in designing scalable, AI enabled and ergonomic privacy review processes.
• Exceptional problem solving of complex, systemic issues that require audacious thinking, rigor and creativity.
• Exceptional analytical and investigative abilities with hands-on experience leading root cause analysis for privacy incidents and driving long term roadmaps to remediate.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills - you can shape and lead the privacy engineering function globally and influence stakeholders across core engineering and product teams to privacy preserving control outcomes.

We expect this position to be filled by April 26, 2026.

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.

$193,800—$285,000 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. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.

Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.

Key skills/competency

• Privacy Engineering
• Data Classification
• Data Governance
• Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
• Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs)
• GDPR Compliance
• CCPA Compliance
• AI Privacy
• Regulatory Compliance
• Data Protection