Empowering every DoorDash team to build trustworthy and secure experiences by providing a single, seamless source of identity truth, creating a powerful identity ecosystem that safeguards every interaction and accelerates the growth of the business
Requirements
- Extensive experience as an engineer in a fast-paced, platform-focused development environment
- Preferred experience with modern authentication protocols (e.g., OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML) and emerging standards (e.g., Passkeys, WebAuthn)
- Experience designing and building authorization systems; familiarity with models like ReBAC, ABAC, or Zanzibar is a strong plus
- Proven experience with large-scale distributed system design, performance optimization, and reliability
- A strong product sense and the ability to partner effectively with cross-functional stakeholders
- Experience with modern principles like Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC)
- Familiarity with authentication protocols like OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of high-performing backend engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, security, and operational excellence
- Drive the technical strategy for our core Accounts, Authentication, and Authorization systems
- Innovate on our authentication stack, exploring and implementing the latest standards like passkeys to enhance user security and experience at scale
- Architect the next generation of our identity and authorization platforms, building generic, scalable systems based on modern principles like Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC) to enable fine-grained, temporal access control for all services
- Own the technical vision for the end-to-end user lifecycle, ensuring data integrity, privacy, and compliance by design
- Provide architectural guidance on complex distributed systems, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and secure for billions of daily requests
- Partner with recruiting to build a diverse and inclusive team, attracting and retaining top engineering talent
Other
- BS, M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or related field
- 3+ years of experience in people management leading backend teams
- 8+ years of industry experience
- A growth mindset—you're eager to expand your skill set and carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing priorities
