- Job Type: Full-Time
- Function: IT
- Industry: Logistics
- Post Date: 04/30/2026
- Website: doordash.com
- Company Address: , San Francisco, CA
About DoorDash
At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly and always learn and reiterate to support merchants, Dashers and the communities we serve. 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.Job Description
About the Role
The Senior Manager of Cyber Defense will lead the Cyber Defense team in the US.
This critical role is responsible for ensuring the organization's security posture by proactively identifying, investigating, and mitigating cybersecurity threats and incidents, as well as building AI-based automation. The Senior Manager will report to the director of Cyber Defense in the EU to execute on strategic plans and projects to enhance the company's security posture across all the brands.
The role requires active collaboration with team members in the UK and EU (Deliveroo and Wolt), which is why the role will be fulfilled in the US East time zone.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Develop and implement a roadmap for continuous improvement of the team's capabilities, to include building net new functional areas. Automation and AI feature prominently.
- Lead the response to information security incidents, including investigation of, countermeasures to, and recovery from cyber attacks, unauthorized access, and policy breaches.
- Especially with incidents, act as the executive support for Americas timezone business and Legal, which includes participating in on-call for escalations or sometimes an incident commander role in high profile cases.
- Define, monitor, and report key performance indicators and service level agreements for internal teams and external vendors.
- Develop, maintain, and execute on key incident response plans and playbooks for global response.
- Collect and analyze information security threat intelligence to proactively identify and assess threats that could impact DoorDash.
- Hire, mentor, and train security engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, resilience and sustainable work, knowledge sharing, and collaboration within the Cyber Defense team.
We’re excited about you because…
- 10+ years of experience in information security and people management. Must have experience leading Incident Response, Incident Management, Investigations and Threat Hunt functions.
- Experience working with global partners in a follow-the-sun model.
- Experience providing technical leadership and guidance, and thinking strategically and analytically to solve problems,
- Excellent understanding of information security operations related frameworks and standards (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK and NIST).
- Understanding and actively following the technology surrounding large language models.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Led with a people-first approach, is able to facilitate a conversation rather than dictate it, and is empathetic to divergent viewpoints.
We expect this position to be filled by 5/17/2026.
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.
$231,200 - $340,000 USD