Engineering Manager, Merchant Knowledge Platform (New York)

DoorDash connects customers with local businesses for delivery, from restaurants to grocery, retail and its own DashMart stores. The Merchant Knowledge Platform team, part of DoorDash’s Merchant organization, builds the systems that serve merchant, store, menu, and catalog data to experiences across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo. Our platform connects merchant information to the experiences people rely on every day, from discovering stores and searching for products to placing orders.

Key responsibilities

• Shape the technical vision and roadmap for a global merchant data platform that supports consumer and merchant experiences across three companies
• Guide the design of distributed systems that serve large volumes of data with high availability, low latency, and consistent performance
• Partner with engineering, product, and business teams to turn shared needs into reusable platform capabilities
• Support, coach, and develop a team of engineers with a range of experience, helping them grow their technical skills and ownership
• Improve platform reliability and engineering practices while helping the team use AI tools to learn, build, and deliver more effectively

Requirements

• Experience managing engineers, including coaching, performance management, and supporting career growth
• Previously led technical projects and can guide architecture, review detailed designs
• Experience building and operating large-scale backend or platform systems, with a strong understanding of distributed systems, data access patterns
• Experience setting technical roadmaps and balancing immediate partner needs with long-term platform investments
• Connect technical decisions to business outcomes and communicate priorities, tradeoffs, and expectations across teams

Location and schedule

• Onsite in New York, New York

Salary and benefits

US base salary $193,800 to $285,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.