Engineering Manager, Demand Shaping
DoorDash
About the Team
The Demand Shaping team sits within Selection Growth Engineering, the technical backbone of DoorDash’s radius ecosystem. Selection Engineering is responsible for how stores are surfaced across all DoorDash consumer surfaces—balancing quality, cost, and speed across geographies, verticals, and demand environments.
Demand Shaping designs and operates systems that influence marketplace demand in real time through intelligent batching, dynamic radius controls, pricing levers, and consumer experiences. From dynamic and route-aware selection to consumer experience on store availability, the team builds product and algorithmic systems that align customer behavior, Dasher efficiency, and fulfillment economics—making the marketplace more affordable, adaptive, and efficient at scale.
About the Role
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Demand Shaping team. This is a highly cross-functional, systems-driven role at the intersection of marketplace dynamics, spatial intelligence, pricing, and consumer experience.
Your mission will be to optimize order distribution and fulfillment economics by shaping demand through dynamic selection, batching-oriented logic, and pricing- and distance-aware experiences. You’ll partner closely with Product, Ops, Data Scientists, and other Engineering teams to define strategy, execution, and long-term technical direction.
As a technical leader, you’ll ensure the team delivers high-impact marketplace systems that operate reliably at scale while remaining configurable, experiment-friendly, and grounded in real-world market behavior.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Build and lead a high-performing full-stack engineering team focused on demand shaping, batching, and marketplace optimization systems
- Own the technical vision and roadmap for Demand Shaping, aligning product strategy with Selection Engineering’s broader mission
- Partner deeply with Product, Ops, and Data Scientists to integrate road-distance-aware pricing, affordability optimizations, and experimentation frameworks
- Deliver real-time, data-driven systems that balance top-line growth, delivery quality, and unit economics across markets
- Foster a culture of ownership, rigor, and experimentation, with high standards for system correctness, scalability, and operational excellence
We’re excited about you because…
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field
- 7+ years of industry experience
- 2+ years of engineering management experience (team size > 5)
- Proven experience building and scaling backend, tooling or distributed systems
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, especially with cross-functional stakeholders
- AI/ML experience in the optimization space is nice to have.
Why You’ll Love Working at DoorDash
- We are leaders - Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something everyone at DoorDash embraces and embodies
- We are doers - We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do -- on every project, every day
- We are learning - We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job, whether we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute
- We are all DoorDash - The magic of DoorDash is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights
- You grow here faster than other places because we move and grow fast. You practice muscles like leading through chaos, ruthless prioritization, and crisis management
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Compensation
Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Base salary is localized according to employee work location.
In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.
DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package for all regular employees, that includes paid time off, paid parental leave, wellness benefit and several paid holidays.
Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and basic life insurance, an RRSP including an employer match, and a mental health program, among others.
To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.
About DoorDash
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 with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering 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.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
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