Engineering Manager, Compute
Listed on 2026-01-01
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing
About The Team
The Compute team powers everything that runs inside our platform. We provide the infrastructure and automation that enables engineers to build, ship, and operate services at scale with confidence. Our work touches everything from container orchestration and scheduling to provisioning, runtime optimization, and developer experience.
About The Team
The Compute team powers everything that runs inside our platform. We provide the infrastructure and automation that enables engineers to build, ship, and operate services at scale with confidence. Our work touches everything from container orchestration and scheduling to provisioning, runtime optimization, and developer experience.
We manage our Kubernetes-based platform, CI/CD pipelines, and core abstractions that simplify complex infrastructure for internal teams. We’re focused on leverage, building self-service, scalable, and secure systems that help product teams move fast without sacrificing reliability or cost efficiency.
This is a team where foundational engineering meets platform strategy. We’re deeply invested in automation, observability, and doing infrastructure the “boring” way by making it robust, reliable, and invisible when it needs to be.
About The Role
We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Compute team. In this role, you’ll set the technical vision and execution for building highly available, cost-effective, and performant compute infrastructure. You’ll partner with senior engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to design and operate systems that support our platform's reliability and scale.
Your team will focus on Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD systems, runtime optimization, and cloud integration. We work with AWS EKS, Python, Terraform, and Buildkite, and are open to adopting new tools where they can deliver value.
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 Kubernetes-based systems
- 3+ years designing and operating cloud-native systems in AWS, Azure, or GCP
- 2+ years leading engineering teams
- Experience leading compute platform teams working with scheduling, orchestration, or provisioning with Kubernetes at scale
- A strong bias for action, pragmatic problem-solving, and deep technical expertise
- Proven success leading cross-functional initiatives with measurable impact
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 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…
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