About this role
About the Team
DoorDash is one of the world’s most trusted on-demand logistics platforms. DoorDash Security exists to keep it that way, protecting our people, property, operations, brand, and reputation across all our markets. Our Cyber Defense team within Security proactively identifies and mitigate internal and external threat actors, and investigates and responds to all cybersecurity incidents. Our DoorDash, Deliveroo, and Wolt brands now span more than 40 countries, dozens of offices, and tens of thousands of employees. That growth demands a global Cyber Defense function built to match it.
About the Role
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,
We’re excited about you because you have…
• 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 cyb