Engineering Manager, Traffic

About the 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.

• 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

• 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

We are an equal opportunity employer. We will consider applicants in accordance with applicable laws. See our Equal Employment Opportunity policy for details.

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.

Benefits

Door Dash offers a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, including a 401(k) plan with employer matching, paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws, medical, dental, and vision coverage, and other programs to support well-being.

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