Director of Engineering, Logistics
Sunnyvale, CAAll locationsSunnyvale, CASan Francisco, CA On-site
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About the role
DoorDash is seeking a seasoned Engineering Director to lead our Logistics Org. DoorDash is seeking a Director of Engineering with a deep background in Large-Scale Systems, Machine Learning, and Mathematical Optimization to lead our Logistics team in San Francisco. In this role, you are the architect of our three-sided marketplace. You will oversee the development of the core fulfillment platforms responsible for real-time dispatching, dynamic pricing task-allocation, ETAs and supply-demand balancing. This is a unique opportunity to marry complex algorithmic research with "five-nines" platform reliability. We are also looking for a leader who is deeply bought into the transformative potential of AI; someone who sees large language models, foundation models, and world model architectures not as adjacent curiosities but as core primitives for reimagining how logistics systems learn, plan, and adapt at scale.
What you'll bring
- A B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent.
- An AI-native leadership mindset.
- You are deeply convicted about the role of AI - including foundation models and world model approaches - in transforming logistics.
- You've thought seriously about how these technologies can move logistics beyond hand-tuned rules toward systems that learn, adapt, and generalize, and you know how to rally an engineering org around that vision without losing sight of production reliability and business impact.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 7+ years leading engineering managers and multiple teams.
- Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations.
- You've led multiple teams through hypergrowth, re-orgs, developed managers into leaders, and created leverage through systems and strategy.
- A strategic mindset that shapes technical direction.
- You define multi-quarter roadmaps, make high-stakes architectural decisions at scale, and translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical strategies.
- The ability to operate at the intersection of engineering, product, and business.
- You partner with cross-functional leaders to align on priorities, rally teams around shared goals, and use strong product instincts to drive business-critical outcomes.
- Deep experience developing talent and building culture.