Remote Engineering Manager, Proactive Security Platform

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 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.