Staff Technical Program Manager, Security

DoorDash
San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WAPosted 23 February 2026

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><p><img style="display: none; max-width: 100%;" src="https://click.appcast.io/greenhouse-te8/a31.png?ent=34e=22630t=1701374353806" width="1px"> <img style="display: none; max-width: 100%;" src="https://track.jobadx.com/v1/i.gif?utm_pixel=224e990b-8ff4-4287-8d5d-2ff09647f181utm_ptz=ESTutm_rqt=track" alt="" width="1"></p></div><h1><strong>About the Team</strong></h1> <p>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!</p> <h1><strong>About the Role</strong></h1> <p>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<strong> platforms are built with safety and resiliency by design</strong>. You’ll <strong>own complex, cross-functional programs</strong>, 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 must be located in San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Los Angeles, CA; or Seattle, WA for this hybrid position. You will report into the centralized Technical Program Management team in Engineering.</p> <h1><strong>You're excited about this opportunity because you will…</strong></h1> <ul> <li><strong>Deliver Program Vision Strategy</strong>: Shape and execute cross-company programs that deliver scalable, reliable, and efficient security solutions at scale, aligned to DoorDash’s business growth.</li> <li><strong>Drive Execution Optimization</strong>: Establish durable frameworks for planning, execution, and visibility, ensuring security initiatives are prioritized, resourced, and tracked effectively.</li> <li><strong>Partner Across the Organization</strong>: Act as the connective tissue between Security Engineering, Product, and Platform teams — enabling velocity and rigor while upholding strong security standards.</li> <li><strong>Demonstrate Technical Depth</strong>: Leverage your understanding of large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, security engineering and platform engineering to evaluate designs, assess trade-offs, and influence solutions.</li> <li><strong>Nurture Stakeholders Build Trust</strong>: Manage expectations across leadership and partner teams, earning trust through clear communication, problem solving, and deep technical credibility.</li> <li><strong>Enable “Security by Default”</strong>: Drive initiatives that embed security into developer workflows and cloud infrastructure, abstracting away complexity and reducing friction.</li> <li><strong>Scale Global Programs</strong>: 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.</li> </ul> <h1><strong>We're excited about you because…</strong></h1> <ul> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>You have excellent written verbal communic ... (truncated, view full listing at source)