Director of Engineering, Security
DoorDash
About the Team
At DoorDash we’re 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 best security team. We are committed to protecting our people, partners, customers, and technologies with robust safeguards and unwavering vigilance.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Director of Engineering, Security to lead our Security Engineering and Security Enablement teams. Our Security Engineering team comprises software engineers building and operating the foundational security infrastructure and controls underlying all our products and services. Our Security Enablement team comprises security engineers who are experts in our business, acting as trusted security partners to our engineering, product, and design teams to solve security problems across business verticals.
We are looking for an exceptional technical software engineering and security leader to evolve our systems and infrastructure such that security is always on by default and provided as a service in our production environments, abstracting security away from our DoorDash engineers, so that they can single mindedly focus on growing our business and delighting our customers.
This role will be based in the San Francisco Bay Area or Seattle, and report to our Chief Information Security Officer and be part of the security leadership team at DoorDash.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
Deliver vision and strategy for a builder-first security organization, delivering security solutions at scale and owning the outcomes.
- Define and scale a global Security Partner organization that will not only focus on securing our products and services, but also innovate in security to reduce customer friction, increase engineering velocity, and unlock new business opportunities.
- Bring software engineering expertise in building and operating high scale systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, efficiency and ease of use.
- Build, sustain, and grow a combined software engineering and security engineering organization to address the growing needs of DoorDash.
We’re excited about you because…
You have an advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Security, or a related discipline.You have 15+ years experience in an engineering management role spanning software engineering and security engineering.
- You have expertise in cloud infrastructure engineering, developer experience, platform engineering, and information security.
- You maintain a high bar for engineering operational excellence, and have built and operated mission-critical, reliable, scalable, and highly available engineering systems
- You have a track record of growing Software Engineers, Engineering Managers, Security Engineers, and Security Managers from entry-level to senior principal engineer and senior manager levels
- You are an exceptional partner to engineering teams, and leverage your deep cross-functional technical expertise to earn trust and forge durable partnerships in a fast moving environment.
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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).
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 with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering 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.
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