Engineering Manager, Red Team

DoorDash, Inc

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Remote
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Remote
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$193,800–$285,000 / yr
Posted
143 days ago
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This role $239k
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About DoorDash, Inc

DoorDash, Inc. is an American company operating online food ordering and food delivery. It trades under the symbol DASH. With a 56% market share, DoorDash is the largest food delivery platform in the United States.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Red Team

Engineering Manager, Red Team will lead and grow a team of offensive security engineers to identify critical attack paths across a multi-sided marketplace involving consumer data, payment systems, driver logistics, and cloud-native infrastructure. In this player-coach role, you will define the strategic roadmap, manage engagement scoping, and oversee the development of custom red team tools as production-quality software. You will collaborate cross-functionally with detection, response, and product engineering teams to translate offensive findings into actionable risk reduction. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in adversary simulation, TTPs, and attack chains within cloud-native environments involving AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines. You must be able to build purple team workflows and communicate technical risks to non-technical stakeholders while managing the full lifecycle of threat-informed engagements to secure complex infrastructure against real adversaries.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Remote?

Median $235250 from 43 postings across 20 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define the red team's strategic roadmap, including engagement cadence and target prioritization based on the threat landscape.
  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of offensive security engineers while managing headcount expansion.
  • Stay hands-on with technical tasks such as engagement scoping, methodology selection, and tooling architecture.
  • Drive cross-functional remediation by partnering with engineering and detection teams to fix identified vulnerabilities.
  • Build purple team workflows with detection engineering to validate and improve defensive coverage.
  • Direct the development of red team infrastructure and custom tools as production-quality software.
  • Translate technical offensive findings into risk-based language for non-technical stakeholders and executives.
  • Design metrics and processes that communicate the team's value in terms of measurable risk reduction.

What we're looking for

  • You must have 7+ years of experience in offensive security, including red teaming and adversary simulation.
  • You must have at least 3 years of experience managing offensive security practitioners.
  • You must possess deep hands-on expertise in TTPs, attack chains, tradecraft, and tooling.
  • You must have experience with cloud-native offensive operations involving AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • You must be able to develop or direct the creation of custom offensive tooling as engineered software.
  • You must demonstrate the ability to lead, coach, and grow a team of security engineers.
  • You must have experience influencing cross-functional teams to prioritize and act on security findings.
  • Relevant certifications such as OSCP, OSCE, GXPN, CRTO, or CRTL are preferred.

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