[Hiring] Senior Director, Global Cyber Defense @DoorDash

Role Description

The Senior Director, Global Cyber Defense will lead DoorDash’s Cyber Defense organization, including all Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, and Insider Threat teams at the company and its subsidiaries globally. The role will directly report to the Global Chief Security Officer and be responsible for ensuring the organization's security posture by proactively identifying, investigating, and mitigating cybersecurity threats and incidents, as well as developing and implementing strategic plans, policies, and procedures to enhance the company's security posture.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Work directly with the CSO and other senior leaders to align the Cyber Defense strategy with the overall business objectives of DoorDash.
• Lead the response to information security incidents, including investigation of, countermeasures to, and recovery from cyber attacks, unauthorized access, and policy breaches.
• Engage, interact, and coordinate with incident responders, cross-functional partners within DoorDash, as well as external law enforcement.
• Identify and investigate insider threats, partnering with key stakeholders such as Legal, Fraud, and HR.
• Evaluate and implement advanced threat detection technologies and techniques to enhance the organization's detection capabilities.
• Collect and analyze information security threat intelligence to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate top threats that could impact DoorDash.
• Continue to grow and mature the engineering-first Cyber Defense program that operates scalable services and processes, leveraging mature and frontier AI technologies to thrive in a high threat environment.
• Define and deliver on service level agreements (SLAs) and raise the bar in operational resilience and excellence.
• Mentor and train security engineers and managers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and collaboration within the organization.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of cyber defense experience with 10+ in a cloud-native environment.
• 10+ years of people management experience within a security organization.
• Experience leading global incident response and security operations teams at technology companies.
• Deep technical security expertise in cyber defense functional areas.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Exceptional collaboration and partnership skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organization, including IT, legal, compliance, human resources, and business units.
• Familiarity with cyber defense platforms (e.g. SIEM) and their implementation.
• Ability to thrive in a very fast-paced and diverse environment.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including a 401(k) plan with employer matching.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Wellness benefits and commuter benefits match.
• Paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Disability and basic life insurance.
• Family-forming assistance and mental health program.

Company Description

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 users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order 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.