Engineering Manager, Red Team

DoorDash US
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 193,800 - 285,000 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Influence","Problem-solving","Coaching"]

Lead and grow DoorDash’s Red Team, driving strategic red-teaming engagements, tooling architecture, and cross-functional remediation. This player-coach role blends hands-on engagement scoping with leadership to elevate offensive security, align with threat landscape, and translate findings into actionable risk reduction across engineering, detection, and product teams.

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DoorDash US
DoorDash US
4 months ago

Engineering Manager, Red Team

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Job Summary

Lead and grow DoorDash’s Red Team, driving strategic red-teaming engagements, tooling architecture, and cross-functional remediation. This player-coach role blends hands-on engagement scoping with leadership to elevate offensive security, align with threat landscape, and translate findings into actionable risk reduction across engineering, detection, and product teams.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define the red team’s strategic roadmap — engagement cadence, target prioritization, and capability development — aligned to DoorDash’s threat landscape.
  • •Lead, coach, and grow a team of offensive security engineers. Hire intentionally to fill capability gaps as the team scales.
  • •Stay technically involved in engagement scoping, methodology, and tooling architecture. Guide adversary simulation, not just manage it.
  • •Drive remediation outcomes cross-functionally — partner with detection/response, AppSec, infrastructure security, and product engineering to make sure findings get fixed, not just documented.
  • •Build purple team workflows with detection engineering to validate and improve defensive coverage.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 193,800 - 285,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid ParentalCommuter BenefitsPaid LeavePaid SickDisabilityLife InsuranceWellness StipendHolidays

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of offensive security experience (red teaming, adversary simulation, penetration testing) with at least 3 years managing offensive security practitioners
  • •Deep, hands-on red team expertise—you speak fluently about TTPs, attack chains, tradecraft, and tooling because you’ve done the work
  • •Track record of shaping security strategy beyond your own team— influencing engineering, product, or infrastructure organizations to prioritize and act on findings
  • •Experience with cloud-native offensive operations (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, containerized microservices, CI/CD pipelines) and building or directing custom offensive tooling as engineered software
  • •People-first leadership—you coach, develop careers, provide honest feedback, and build team culture where offensive security practitioners grow
Experience:7+ yearsSecurityOffensive securityRed teamCloudMarketplaceLogistics
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationInfluenceProblem-solvingCoaching
Certifications:OSCPOSCEGXPNCRTOCRTL
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AWSGCPKubernetesContainerizationCI/CDDocker

Company Brief

DoorDash US
On-demand logistics platform connecting consumers with local restaurants, grocers, and retailers for food delivery, pickup, and convenience services. Operates a marketplace and last-mile delivery network while offering tools and analytics for merchants and couriers.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2013
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