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Engineering Manager, Risk & Identity Platform

Doordashusa

New York, NY, USonsiteE-commerce

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About this role

About the Team

The Risk and Identity Platform team's mission is to empower every DoorDash team to build trustworthy and secure experiences by providing a single, seamless source of identity truth. We are the bedrock of the platform, creating a powerful identity ecosystem that safeguards every interaction and accelerates the growth of the business, all while operating at a massive scale to handle billions of requests a day at four 9s of availability with p999 latency at Accounts (the foundational, compliant source of truth for the entire user lifecycle), Authentication (the secure gateway to DoorDash, authenticating every request), and Authorization (a generic platform serving both user-to-service and service-to-service access control).

About the Role

DoorDash is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Risk and Identity Platform team. This team is at the center of our platform, responsible for building the next generation of critical infrastructure that will enable a zero-trust security posture for the entire company. You will lead a talented team of backend engineers to build a self-service Identity platform that makes it easy for all DoorDash engineers to build secure-by-default applications.

As the Engineering Manager, you will own and execute a multi-year vision for identity at DoorDash. You will drive a technical roadmap that balances ironclad security and reliability with the developer velocity required to support new products and verticals. You will be a key strategic partner to Product, Security, and Privacy leadership, shaping the future of how DoorDash manages trust and access at a global scale.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Lead and mentor a team of high-performing backend engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, security, and operational excellence

• Drive the technical strategy for our core Accounts, Authentication, and Authorization systems

• Innovate on our authentication stack, exploring and implementing the latest standards like passkeys to enhance user security and experience at scale

• Architect the next generation of our identity and authorization platforms, building generic, scalable systems based on modern principles like Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC) to enable fine-grained, temporal access control for all services

• Own the technical vision for the end-to-end user lifecycle, ensuring data integrity, privacy, and compliance by design

• Provide architectural guidance on complex distributed systems, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and secure for billions of daily requests

• Partner with recruiting to build a diverse and inclusive team, attracting and retaining top engineering talent

We're excited about you because you have…

• BS, M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or related field

• 3+ years of experience in people management leading backend teams

• 8+ years of industry experience

• Extensive experience as an engineer in a fast-paced, platform-focused development environment

• Preferred experience with modern authentication protocols (e.g., OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML) and emerging standards (e.g., Passkeys, WebAuthn)

• Experience designing and building authorization systems; familiarity with models like ReBAC, ABAC, or Zanzibar is a strong plus

• Proven experience with large-scale distributed system design, performance optimization, and reliability

• A strong product sense and the ability to partner effectively with cross-functional stakeholders

• A growth mindset—you're eager to expand your skill set and carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting.

Notice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only

We use Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023, and resumed using Covey Scout for Inbound again on June 29, 2024.

The Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor. Results of the audit may be viewed here: Covey 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).

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado. $193,800 &m

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