Engineering Manager, Compute

DoorDash USA • San Francisco, WA

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About The Position

About the Team The Compute team powers everything that runs inside our platform. We provide the infrastructure and automation that enables engineers to build, ship, and operate services at scale with confidence. Our work touches everything from container orchestration and scheduling to provisioning, runtime optimization, and developer experience. We manage our Kubernetes-based platform, CI/CD pipelines, and core abstractions that simplify complex infrastructure for internal teams. We’re focused on leverage, building self-service, scalable, and secure systems that help product teams move fast without sacrificing reliability or cost efficiency. This is a team where foundational engineering meets platform strategy. We’re deeply invested in automation, observability, and doing infrastructure the “boring” way by making it robust, reliable, and invisible when it needs to be. About the Role We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Compute team. In this role, you’ll set the technical vision and execution for building highly available, cost-effective, and performant compute infrastructure. You’ll partner with senior engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to design and operate systems that support our platform's reliability and scale. Your team will focus on Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD systems, runtime optimization, and cloud integration. We work with AWS EKS, Python, Terraform, and Buildkite, and are open to adopting new tools where they can deliver value.

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on software development, including large-scale Kubernetes-based systems
• 3+ years designing and operating cloud-native systems in AWS, Azure, or GCP
• 2+ years leading engineering teams
• Experience leading compute platform teams working with scheduling, orchestration, or provisioning with Kubernetes at scale
• A strong bias for action, pragmatic problem-solving, and deep technical expertise
• Must be comfortable regularly exercising discretion and independent judgment in performing job duties, including evaluating options, making informed decisions, and determining appropriate courses of action within the scope of assigned responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of experienced engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, inclusion, and ownership
• Champion data-informed decision-making and continuous improvement across the team
• Oversee the design and operation of scalable, reliable infrastructure, while proactively managing down technical debt
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to drive long-term architectural direction and influence company-wide strategy
• Guide the team through ambiguity, leveraging industry best practices while also knowing when to break the mold
• Communicate with clarity, whether explaining a trade-off to execs or mapping technical strategy across teams
• Drive alignment across teams and disciplines, leading high-impact cross-functional initiatives
• Stay current on the latest trends in cloud infrastructure, and bring back ideas worth pursuing
• Build, sustain, and grow a diverse team to address the growing needs of the organization

Benefits

• 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).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees