Engineering Manager, Proactive Security Platform

doordashusa; United States; Remote; USD 194,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium healthcare

Paid parental leave

Wellness benefits

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking an Engineering Manager, Proactive Security to set and lead the technical direction for platform hardening across AWS and GCP for us and our global partners. The role requires coordinating a global team, improving security controls, and championing secure-by-default practices.

You will mentor tech leads, own tier-0 security roadmaps, and collaborate with Infrastructure, Compute, and Data teams to deliver durable controls and incident-ready platforms.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in Security or Infrastructure Platform Engineering at internet-scale,
• 3+ years of technical leadership leading global teams,
• Hands-on expertise hardening AWS and/or GCP at scale,
• Experience with access and secrets infrastructure (Teleport/Vault) and on-call rigor,
• Track record of highly available platform services with incident response.

Responsibilities

• Set and lead the technical direction for platform hardening across AWS/GCP.
• Influence engineering standards and leverage AI tools to improve productivity.
• Own the hardening roadmap for tier-0 cloud infrastructure and access services with on-call.
• Coach and mentor tech leads and engineers as a player-coach on security platforms.
• Partner with Core Infrastructure and Compute teams to harden shared cloud substrate.
• Build and maintain OE practices for tier-0 security platforms with minimal downtime.
• Drive continuous hardening to eliminate insecure defaults before production.

Skills

Security leadership

Cloud hardening

Access & secrets

On-call reliability

Infra platform engineering

Communication skills

Education

Master's degree in CS/Security Engineering

Equivalent work experience

Tools

Teleport

HashiCorp Vault

Terraform

Job description

DoorDash is seeking an Engineering Manager, Proactive Security to set and lead the technical direction for platform hardening across AWS and GCP for us and our global partners. The role requires coordinating a global team, improving security controls, and championing secure-by-default practices.

You will mentor tech leads, own tier-0 security roadmaps, and collaborate with Infrastructure, Compute, and Data teams to deliver durable controls and incident-ready platforms.