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Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure-March 2024
Seattle
Mar 17, 2025
About Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

  About the Team

  Come help us build the world's most reliable on-demand, logistics engine for delivery! We're bringing on experienced engineers to help us further our 24x7, global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash’s three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers.

  About the Roles

  The Data Governance Platform team’s mission is to build robust data platforms and establish policies that guarantee the analytics data is of high quality, easily accessible/cataloged, and compliant with financial and privacy regulations, fostering trust and confidence in our data-driven decision-making process. The team is relatively small, so there's an opportunity for impact where you can help grow the team and shape the roadmap for the data platform at DoorDash. You will report directly to the Data Governance Platform Engineering Manager. You must be located in the Bay Area or Seattle for this hybrid role. 

  The Data Infrastructure team manages DoorDash's massive data warehouse and data lake, and makes data accessible for teams driving decision making, machine learning, and experimentation. The team is relatively small, so there's an opportunity for impact where you can help grow the team and shape the roadmap for the data platform at DoorDash. You will report directly into the Data Infrastructure Engineering Manager. You must be located in the Bay Area or Seattle for this hybrid role. 

  The Realtime Platform powers business starting from Realtime data collection, to data processing which enables Data Scientists and ML Engineers for analytics, to out-of-box realtime feature and signal generation providing customers a personalized experience. The platform provides a complete solution including infrastructure and framework using open-source technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Spark. The solution also offers Realtime insights as a product integrated with in-house services and OLAP such as Apache Pinot. The team consists of a mix of experienced veterans of stream processing from prestigious companies and some inspiring and passionate budding streaming engineers.

  You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

  Work on our near real-time ingestion, etl frameworks, orchestration service and data quality platform to enable data builders at DoorDash deliver high-quality and trustable data sets and metrics

  Work on building a data discovery platform, privacy frameworks, unified access control frameworks, and data quality platform to enable data builders at DoorDash to deliver high-quality and trustable data sets and metrics

  Help accelerate the adoption of the data lake by building streaming support for spark service, enable self-serve ETL through full abstraction with support for scala, sql, python jobs, and drive operational optimizations through self-heal and increased spot instance utilization

  Help accelerate the adoption of the data discovery platform by building integrations across online, analytics platforms and promoting self-serve

  Come up with solutions for scaling data systems for various business needs

  Collaborate in a dynamic startup environment

  We’re excited about you because…

  B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent

  [Dependant on level] 2+ years of experience with CS fundamental concepts and experience with at least one of the programming languages of Scala, Java, and Python

  Experience working on big data domains (streaming, batch, data lake and/or OLAP) and promoting Realtime data analytics at scale using technologies such as Apache Kafka, Flink, Spark, Druid, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, etc.

  You are located or are willing to locate to the Bay Area or Seattle

  Prior technical experience in Big Data infrastructure & governance - you've built meaningful pieces of data infrastructure. Bonus if those were open-sourced technologies like DataHub, Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Flink

  Experience improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of data platforms

  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.

  Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.

  Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

  If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.

  Compensation

  The location-specific base salary range for this position is listed below.  Compensation in other geographies may vary.

  Actual compensation within the pay range will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location.  For roles that are available to be filled remotely, base salary is localized according to employee work location.  Please discuss your intended work location with your recruiter for more information.

  DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being, and that’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package, for full-time employees, that includes healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan including an employer match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid time off, paid parental leave, and several paid holidays, among others.

  In addition to base salary, the compensation package for this role also includes opportunities for equity grants.

  We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on August 21, 2023.

  Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here.

  California Pay Range:

  $172,000—$258,000 USD

  Washington Pay Range:

  $172,000—$258,000 USD

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