Software Engineer, DoorDash
Storage Access Platform
$144.5-238k
Plus equity
Local food delivery platform
Job no longer available
Local food delivery platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$144.5-238k
Plus equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower local economies by connecting food lovers with great local restaurants
Role
Who you are
- You have 3+ years of professional experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available distributed systems
- You have hands-on experience using large scale distributed database or caching systems (Ex: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, Redis, etc)
- Understanding of Distributed System complexities, performance tuning
- Backend service and tool development in Golang, Kotlin and/or Python
- You have experience with incident response, disaster recovery, and are interested in making systems highly available
- You are a technology enthusiast. You excel at learning from the team, mentoring and guiding a fast growing organization in setting the right architectural patterns, handling build vs buy decisions, making judicious investments in the right areas anticipating what the company needs a few years down the road
- You think of quick wins while planning for long term strategy and engineering excellence. You are excited about breaking down large systems into manageable, sustainable components that can be iterated on
- Drive decisions on complex or ambiguous storage architecture issues, coordinating with product team to determine requirements, and ensuring improvements are successfully implemented and monitored, finding ways to increase efficiency
- You are excited about cross collaboration with stakeholders, external partners and peer engineering leaders
- You love rolling up your sleeves to get down to the lowest level of detail
- Maintain, troubleshoot and be on call for engineering and operational support
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer, you’ll be working on building services, libraries on top of our online Databases
- At DoorDash, we use Cassandra for Key Value needs, CRDB and Aurora PostgreSQL for transactional use cases, Redis for Caching the data in memory
- As a platform team, we build and maintain several services including a Data gateway service to let teams talk to Databases using gRPC with many features added in the layer, a service API cache that can cache the API calls. We support PgBouncer as a proxy for Aurora PostgreSQL
Our take
DoorDash was an early entrant into the last-mile restaurant delivery business, which is now crowded with the likes of Uber Eats, Postmates and GrubHub. They offer restaurants an end-to-end delivery platform, generating new business and access to a network of delivery drivers.
To differentiate itself in the market, DoorDash focused on areas with fewer competitors and found success in this untapped market. Other factors, such as the company's targeting of restaurants which many not typically offer a delivery service, also contribute to its profitability. The company made its stock market debut in 2020 with one of the biggest IPOs of the year.
However, in light of increasing discontent around DoorDash's commission structure from restaurants, competition remains fierce. The business recently responded by publishing a transparent fee structure, but the number of options open to restaurants means DoorDash must fight to keep its customers loyal. Despite this, by focusing on consumer retention, logistics and technology, the company is likely able to maintain its existing growth and revenue.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Jun 2020
$400m
SERIES H
Nov 2019
$100m
SERIES G
Total funding: $2.5bn
Company benefits
- Company stock options
- Work from home stipend
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Mid-Market, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Tony Xu
(CEO)Tony studied at UCB and worked as a Matrix Partners Associate while studying for an MBA at Stanford. He combined this experience to co-found DoorDash in January 2013, and has served as CEO since June 2013.
Stanley Tang
(CPO)Previously studied Computer Science at Stanford, before working at Facebook as a Software Engineer.
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