Engineering Manager, DoorDash for Business

DoorDash

$193K — $285K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years managing engineers including hiring and performance management
  • Experience with shipping and operating large-scale production systems
  • Led projects across multiple teams or geographies
  • Ability to set direction amid ambiguity
  • Focus on outcomes over output—measuring business and customer impact
  • Commitment to operational excellence in engineering practices
  • Strong communication skills with non-engineering stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction and define roadmaps in collaboration with product and business teams
  • Recruit, develop, and retain high-performing engineers
  • Oversee the implementation of a global product, making decisions on regional variations
  • Drive architectural improvements, consolidating systems and managing production migrations
  • Enhance operational reliability, including incident response and on-call health management
  • Collaborate with sales and business teams to translate customer needs into technical capabilities

Benefits

  • 401(k) plan with employer matching
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Wellness benefits including a mental health program
  • Commuter benefits match
  • Flexible paid time off and 80 hours of paid sick leave annually
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Disability and basic life insurance
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Family-forming assistance
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team in DoorDash for Business.

Our domain runs from the moment an order is placed to everything a company needs to administer it: high-complexity ordering for catering, recurring team meals, and group orders; the admin portal, identity, and member management that companies run their account on; budgets and policy enforcement; and the expense and travel integrations that connect us to our customers' finance systems.

You'll own a pod of 8-10 engineers with a critical charter inside that domain, real revenue attached to it, and close partnership with Product, Design, and Sales Strategy & Operations.

You must be located in the Seattle, San Francisco, Sunnyvale, or New York Metro Area for this hybrid position.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will...
  • Own a business-critical charter end to end - set technical direction, define the roadmap with your PM and Business counterparts, and be accountable for what ships and how well it runs.
  • Build and grow a team - Hire, level up, and retain engineers; set the bar for what good looks like on your pod; give people work that stretches them.
  • Work on a genuinely global product - Your charter serves the US alongside EMEA, LATAM, and APAC, with partner pods in India, Helsinki, and Brazil. You'll help decide what's built once globally versus what needs regional variation and build the partnerships across time zones to make that stick
  • Take on real architectural weight - Consolidating onto one global stack means untangling parallel implementations, drawing clean service-ownership lines, and making migration calls with production traffic on them.
  • Raise the operational bar - Corporate orders happen at lunch, in every time zone, with no room for a bad day. You'll own on-call health, incident response, and the reliability investments that make both sustainable.
  • Partner directly with the go-to-market side - Sales and business partners bring you enterprise customer needs constantly; you'll help decide what's a platform capability versus a one-off, and you'll be in the room for it.
We're excited about you because you...
  • Have 2+ years managing engineers (including hiring and performance management) on top of a strong track record as a senior individual contributor.
  • Have shipped and operated production systems at scale - you're comfortable in the architecture conversation and can hold your own with your most senior engineer.
  • Have led work spanning multiple teams or geographies, and you know how to build trust with a pod you don't sit next to.
  • Set direction under ambiguity. You can take a broad charter, decompose it into a roadmap, and say no to the things that don't matter this half.
  • Own outcomes, not output - you measure your team by customer and business impact, and you're fluent talking about both.
  • Care about craft and operational excellence: testing, observability, on-call load, and paying down the debt that slows a team.
  • Communicate clearly with non-engineering partners - Product, Design, Sales, Operations, Finance.


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-$285,000 USD

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