Staff Technical Program Manager, Security

Staff Technical Program Manager, Security at 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. TPMs on our Engineering teams provide fundamental support to the underlying technology services as well as the engineers building these services. It’s no simple task, but it wouldn’t be interesting if it was!

About the Role

We’re looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager to drive large-scale programs across Security Engineering and Enablement. You’ll focus on building structure, clarity, and velocity into initiatives that ensure DoorDash’s products and platforms are built with safety and resiliency by design. You’ll own complex, cross-functional programs, bring structure to execution, and help leaders and engineers align on goals, trade-offs, and outcomes. Programs will require a strong technical understanding, strong cross organization coordination/facilitation, stakeholder management, and ownership of results.

You will report into the centralized Technical Program Management team in Engineering.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Deliver Program Vision & Strategy: Shape and execute cross-company programs that deliver scalable, reliable, and efficient security solutions at scale, aligned to DoorDash’s business growth.

• Drive Execution & Optimization: Establish durable frameworks for planning, execution, and visibility, ensuring security initiatives are prioritized, resourced, and tracked effectively.

• Partner Across the Organization: Act as the connective tissue between Security Engineering, Product, and Platform teams — enabling velocity and rigor while upholding strong security standards.

• Demonstrate Technical Depth: Leverage your understanding of large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, security engineering and platform engineering to evaluate designs, assess trade-offs, and influence solutions.

• Nurture Stakeholders & Build Trust: Manage expectations across leadership and partner teams, earning trust through clear communication, problem solving, and deep technical credibility.

• Enable “Security by Default”: Drive initiatives that embed security into developer workflows and cloud infrastructure, abstracting away complexity and reducing friction.

• Scale Global Programs: Deliver programs that expand security coverage globally, balancing risk reduction with engineering velocity and business enablement to DoorDash and the family of companies including Wolt and Deliveroo.

We're excited about you because…

• You’re experienced in working with platform and/or product engineers and large-scale distributed systems. You can speak to system architecture, secure design, scalability and reliability decisions, and design trade offs.
• You’re a strong technical leader with the ability to collaborate and build relationships across organizations, bridge gaps between teams, and successfully influence without authority.
• You have strong ownership, urgency, and drive. You are willing to roll up your sleeves and dive into the details to understand and drive your programs.
• You have excellent written & verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with confidence, clarity, and focus. You can convey concepts and considerations to non-experts and experts alike.
• You’ve engaged with Engineering teams on product & platform development with a thorough understanding of software development processes and project planning.
• You are pragmatic and detailed in your approach and focus on progress, not perfection.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Security Engineering or other related discipline.
• 10+ years recent experience as a Technical Program Manager at an Internet scale technology company.
• Experience leading and driving initiatives in technical security engineering in collaboration with cross-functional teams (strongly preferred but not explicitly required).
• Experience in large-scale distributed systems and system architecture.
• Experience working with platform engineers and directly engaging on product development, with a thorough understanding of software and infrastructure development processes.
• Project planning and execution skills that include reviewing technical design documents, estimating, and scheduling work.

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.

• 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 ranges for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

I4 $130,600—$192,000 USD

I5 $159,800—$235,000 USD

I6 $193,800—$285,000 USD

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.