Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering

About the Team

Data is at the foundation of DoorDash success. The Data Engineering team builds database solutions for various use cases including reporting, product analytics, marketing optimization and financial reporting. Team serves as the foundation for decision-making at DoorDash.

About the Role

DoorDash is looking for a Staff Software Engineer,Data to be a technical lead and help architect and scale our data reliability, data infrastructure, automation and tools to meet growing business needs.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Own critical data systems that support multiple products/teams

• Develop, implement and enforce best practices for data infrastructure and automation

• Design, develop and implement large scale, high volume, high performance data models and pipelines for Data Lake and Data Warehouse

• Improve the reliability and scalability of our Ingestion, data processing, ETLs, Reporting tools and data ecosystem services

• Manage a portfolio of data products that deliver high-quality, trustworthy data

• Help onboard and support other engineers as they join the team

We're excited about you because…

• 8+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer and technical leader leading multiple projects

• 6+ years experience working in data platform and data engineering or a similar role

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python/Kotlin/Scala

• 4+ years of experience in ETL orchestration and workflow management tools like Airflow

• Expert in database fundamentals, SQL, data reliability practices and distributed computing

• 4+ years of experience with the Distributed data/similar ecosystem (Spark, Presto) and streaming technologies such as Kafka/Flink/Spark Streaming

• Excellent communication skills and experience working with technical and non-technical teams and knowledge of reporting tools

• Comfortable working in fast paced environment, self starter and self organizing

• Ability to think strategically, analyze and interpret market and consumer information

• You must be located near one of our engineering hubs indicated above

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.

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