Data Engineer, DoorDash
Corporate Data
$134.5-214.5k
Local food delivery platform
Job no longer available
Local food delivery platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$134.5-214.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower local economies by connecting food lovers with great local restaurants
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of industry experience in data engineering or software engineering
- Experience deploying cloud architecture like dbt, Airflow, and Databricks in AWS
- Expert SQL skills and experience writing complex queries
- Proficiency authoring Airflow DAGs
- You are a strong business thinker, able to use ‘first principles’ to solve challenging business problems at their root level
- You are data-driven, able to analyze data with strong attention to detail and accuracy, and passionate about telling the story behind the data hence turning the data into insight
What the job involves
- DoorDash is seeking an experienced data engineer to join our People Analytics team
- This role will get in on the ground floor helping to build and support the data infrastructure powering our data-driven insights to attract, develop, and retain the best talent to power and grow DoorDash
- You will support and scale our people reporting and analytics within the People Team
- In this role, you will partner with a team of analysts, scientists, and engineers to develop the tools and insights for our people and decision-makers
- Come help us enable our business to garner insights and be a builder, engineer, consultant, and security/privacy advocate
- Architect and engineer our data infrastructure for People data
- Design and implement data warehouse schemas, tables, and views to provide a source of true datasets
- Develop ETL pipelines using tools such as Airflow and dbt for data profiling, cleaning, and transformation
- Support self-service analytics projects by creating secure data structures
- Provide underlying data support for all People metrics (recruiting pipelines, attrition, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, compensation and benefits, etc.)
- Ensure data integrity across all People data
- Rigorously document system requirements and configuration to build operational excellence
- Understand and identify opportunities to improve, working closely with cross-functional teams
- Train peers on new processes and functionality as needed
- Help build data governance with a single source of truth
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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