DoorDash
Software Engineer, Data Platform
US · Mid
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About the role
- The Data Platform team spans data mobility frameworks, ingestion, infrastructure, tools, and governance.
- In parallel, these teams establish strong data quality, cataloging, privacy, and compliance standards to ensure trust in analytics and regulatory adherence.
- As relatively high-impact teams, they offer engineers the opportunity to shape the roadmap, influence core platform decisions, and directly enable DoorDash's business-critical insights and real-time personalization capabilities.
Responsibilities
- DoorDash is a data driven organization and relies on timely, accurate and reliable data to drive many business and product decisions.
- Collaborate with stakeholders building solutions on top of the platform
Requirements
- You must be located in San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, Seattle, WA, or New York, NY.
- We're excited about you because you have…
- Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software
Nice to have
- Prior technical experience in Big Data infrastructure & governance - you've built meaningful pieces of data infrastructure.
Compensation
- The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions.
- Base salary is localized according to an employee's work location.
- In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants.
- flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
- For hourly roles:
Benefits
- In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants.
- DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.
- To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.
- See below for paid time off details:
Company info
- The Core Data Platform organization owns all the infrastructure necessary to run an operationally efficient analytical data stack.
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