Engineering Manager, Traffic

Engineering Manager, Traffic Team

The Traffic team owns the critical path between our customers and our services. We're responsible for routing, ingress/egress, service discovery, and mesh infrastructure that enables secure, reliable, and observable communication across our systems. At our scale, milliseconds matter and resiliency is non-negotiable. We build and operate foundational components like our Envoy-based service mesh, global load balancing, zero-trust networking, and network observability systems. We're also driving strategic initiatives around multi-region routing, intelligent failover, and edge-to-mesh traffic optimization. The challenges are complex, often cross-cutting, and require a mindset that blends systems thinking with pragmatic execution. If you enjoy working at the intersection of performance, reliability, and distributed systems and you like proving it with data then you'll thrive here.

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Traffic team. In this role, you'll drive the technical vision and execution for building highly available, cost-effective, and performant networking infrastructure. You'll partner with senior engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to design and operate systems that power our platform's reliability and scale. Your team will be at the heart of solving some of our toughest networking and routing challenges. You'll work with technologies like Envoy, AWS, Python, and Terraform, and you'll have the freedom to explore new tools and approaches that could improve our capabilities. This is an opportunity to lead a team at the frontier of distributed networking infrastructure.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will

• 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

We're excited about you because you have

• 7+ years of hands-on software development, including large-scale service mesh or networking systems
• 3+ years designing and operating cloud-native systems in AWS, Azure, or GCP
• 2+ years leading engineering teams
• Experience building or scaling L7/L4 routing, load balancing, or traffic policy systems
• A strong bias for action, pragmatic problem-solving, and deep technical expertise
• Proven success leading cross-functional initiatives with measurable results

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.

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 usersfrom 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.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: We're committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That's why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel. Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on "protected categories," we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation. If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.