Engineering Manager, Risk & Identity Platform at DoorDash

DoorDash is revolutionizing food delivery and local commerce. Join our mission to grow and connect communities!

Key Responsibilities

• 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

Required Qualifications

• 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

Key Skills

• People management
• Backend engineering
• Technical strategy development
• Authentication protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, Passkeys, WebAuthn)
• Authorization systems design (ReBAC, ABAC, Zanzibar)
• Large-scale distributed system design
• Performance optimization
• Reliability engineering
• Product sense
• Cross-functional collaboration

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

DoorDash Benefits

• 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)
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• Disability and basic life insurance
• Family-forming assistance
• Mental health program

Salary Range

$1,93,800 - $2,85,000 USD annually

Job Summary

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 <10ms. Our work is organized around three core pillars: 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 pl...

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