Software Engineer, DoorDash

Storage Infrastructure

$176-238k

Salary is applicable to candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY and WA only, and is partially dependent on location

Python

Redis

Kotlin

Golang

DynamoDB

Mid and Senior level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Local food delivery platform

Job no longer available

Local food delivery platform

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceFoodConsumer GoodsDeliveryeCommerce

Job no longer available

$176-238k

Salary is applicable to candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY and WA only, and is partially dependent on location

Python

Redis

Kotlin

Golang

DynamoDB

Mid and Senior level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceFoodConsumer GoodsDeliveryeCommerce

Company mission

To empower local economies by connecting food lovers with great local restaurants

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You are a technology leader. You excel at mentoring and guiding a fast growing organization in setting the right architectural patterns, handling build vs buy decisions, working with various vendors in the database/storage space, 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
You have 3+ years of professional experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available distributed systems
You have hands-on experience and expertise with large scale distributed database or caching systems (Ex: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, Redis, etc)
Deep understanding of Database internals and query 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

What the job involves

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the most critical long term technical roadmap of the storage team
You will be working with the latest technologies through vendor relationships and proof of concepts, solving large complex problems, and defining new technology-enabled opportunities
You will use your skills and experience in guiding the engineers and the management leadership on the right technical choices, mentor several senior engineers and hold a high bar of technical competency

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

Top investors

13% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 11 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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