Engineering Manager – Drive Growth & New Bets

Doordashusa; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 193,800 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan with employer matching

16 weeks of paid parental leave

Wellness benefits

Paid time off and sick leave

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Job summary

Doordashusa is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Drive Growth & New Bets team, based in Sunnyvale, CA. This hybrid role will lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team across health and food delivery platforms.

The ideal candidate has over 8 years of industry experience and at least 2 years in a management role, ensuring operational excellence in delivery services. This position includes dynamic challenges and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• 2+ years managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams of 8+ engineers.
• Experience in platform-scale execution.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple Lines of Business (LOBs).

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering execution across all four Lines of Business.
• Set technical direction and architecture for established and new builds.
• Drive reliability and operational excellence for merchant deliveries.

Skills

Full-stack engineering management

Distributed systems design

Strong product intuition

Ambiguity navigation

Education

8+ years industry experience

Job description

About the Team

DoorDash Drive is the B2B delivery platform, powering same‑day and next‑day fulfillment for merchants who need more than the marketplace. The Drive Growth & New Bets team owns four high‑growth lines of business under Drive:

• Pizza — Reliability, efficiency, and quality programs for Pizza Hut, Domino's, and Papa Johns. Peak pay, flash offers, smart batching, and chatbots.
• Health — HIPAA-compliant specimen, blood-product, and pharma delivery for partners like Quest Diagnostics, LabCorp, AFC Urgent Care, and WellStreet, with active negotiations across major health systems.
• Tasks (new bet) — A new 0→1 platform for Cx-app courier (peer-to-peer delivery) and Mx task dispatch (inventory restocking, point-to-point logistics).
• Fleet Management (new bet) — Self-serve dispatch and consumer tracking for merchants operating their own (1P) driver fleets; first builds going live with Pizza Hut and Hungry Howie's.

About the Role

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead this team. You'll own engineering execution across all four LOBs, partnering with Product, Analytics, BD, and Ops to scale established businesses and incubate new bets through stage‑gated validation. You must be located in the Sunnyvale, CA, San Francisco, CA, or Seattle WA area for this hybrid role.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team (backend, mobile, web) across multiple LOBs
• Set technical direction and architecture for established platforms (Pizza, Health) and brand-new 0→1 builds (Tasks, Fleet Management)
• Partner with Product, BD, and Ops on roadmap, GTM, and demand validation; stage-gate new-bet investments based on signal rather than executing a fixed backlog
• Hire, develop, and retain senior engineers; cultivate a strong ownership culture
• Drive reliability, HIPAA compliance, on-time delivery, and operational excellence for mission‑critical merchant deliveries

We're excited about you because you have…

• 2+ years managing full-stack engineering teams of 8+ engineers
• 8+ years of total industry experience including hands‑on engineering
• Distributed systems design and platform‑scale execution experience
• Strong product intuition and comfort partnering on roadmap and strategy
• Demonstrated ability to operate with ambiguity — half the team's bets are explicitly new businesses we're incubating
• Experience leading multiple LOBs or platforms in parallel is a strong plus

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 offers 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.

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).

Pay range: $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.

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.