Engineering Manager, Proactive Security (Remote US) NEW

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

Job summary

DoorDash invites an Engineering Manager, Proactive Security to lead the technical direction for platform hardening across its global operations. You will drive the hardening roadmap, coach senior engineers, and partner with Core Infrastructure, Compute, and Data teams to raise security standards while ensuring high availability.

The role requires 12+ years in security or infrastructure platform engineering, deep AWS/GCP hands-on experience, and leadership in access/secrets tooling.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience as a Security or Infrastructure Platform Engineer at an internet-scale organization.
• Hands-on experience hardening AWS and/or GCP at scale with guardrails and workload posture.
• Leadership in access/secrets infrastructure such as Teleport and Vault.
• Experience running highly available services with mature on-call and incident response.
• Master's degree or equivalent work experience in a related field.
• Ability to design scalable security platform controls meeting regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute the technical vision for the Security Engineering Platform team across cloud environments.
• Influence engineering standards and leverage ML/LLMs to improve productivity and velocity.
• Own the hardening roadmap for tier-0 cloud infrastructure and access services.
• Coach and mentor tech leads and engineers as a player-coach in cloud hardening.
• Partner with Core Infrastructure, Compute, Data, and other teams to harden the shared cloud.
• Maintain OE practices for tier-0 security platforms with rigorous on-call rotations and escalation paths.

Skills

Security leadership

Cloud security

Platform engineering

On-call practices

Incident response

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Teleport

HashiCorp Vault

Job description

DoorDash connects customers with local businesses for delivery, from restaurants to grocery, retail and its own DashMart stores. Our Security Engineering team is looking for an Engineering Manager, Proactive Security to set and lead the technical direction for platform hardening at DoorDash, Wolt and Deliveroo globally.

Key responsibilities

• Set and execute the technical vision for the Security Engineering Platform team, spanning AWS and GCP account/workload hardening
• Influence and drive improvements to engineering standards, leverage advancements and LLMs to improve productivity and velocity
• Own the hardening roadmap for tier-0 cloud infrastructure and access services, backed by rigorous, follow-the-sun on-call
• Coach and mentor highly skilled tech leads and engineers as a "player-coach," leaning in at the lowest technical level on cloud hardening, identity
• Partner cross-functionally with Core Infrastructure, Compute, Data, and other engineering platform teams to harden the shared cloud
• Build and maintain high Operational Excellence (OE) practices for tier-0 security platforms with rigorous on-call rotations, clear escalation paths

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience as a Security or Infrastructure Platform Engineer at an internet-scale organization
• Deep hands-on expertise hardening AWS and/or GCP at scale, including account structure, guardrails, workload and network posture
• Demonstrated technical leadership operating access and secrets infrastructure such as Teleport, HashiCorp Vault
• Track record of building and running highly available, no-downtime platform services with mature on-call practices, incident response
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Security Engineering, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated technical leadership designing scalable security platform controls and processes that meet required regulatory requirements

Remote details

• Remote role in the United States

Salary and benefits

US base salary $193,800 to $285,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.