Software Engineer, Storage at DoorDash (San Francisco)

DoorDash connects customers with local businesses for delivery, from restaurants to grocery, retail and its own DashMart stores. The Storage teams build and operate online stateful systems and abstractions that are reliable, efficient, secure and easy to use for DoorDash Engineering. The teams are responsible for understanding Product Engineering’s evolving needs and developing platform and infrastructure capabilities to serve them.

Key responsibilities

• One team owns DoorDash’s vector storage infrastructure—operating and evolving vector search systems and future storage indexing systems
• One team builds and operates the distributed data platform powering DoorDash's largest stateful workloads -- including Cassandra
• Build and optimize distributed storage systems that improve data reliability, consistency, and performance
• Own high-leverage control-plane services with clear customer impact, strong reliability requirements, and room for deep technical exploration
• Develop and maintain data abstraction services tailored for high-throughput, low-latency workloads
• Implement and refine caching strategies using Redis, Memcached, and similar technologies to enhance system efficiency

Requirements

• 2+ years of fulltime working experience in designing, building and maintaining scalable, distributed data infrastructure
• Proficient in GoLang, or Java with a deeper expertise in multi-threading, distributed systems and databases
• Deep expertise in NoSQL databases (Cassandra, DynamoDB, or similar) and distributed caching systems (Redis, Memcached)
• Built and optimized high-scale data storage systems with a focus on reliability, availability, and performance
• Expertise in workflow/orchestration engines (Temporal/Cadence/Argo, job runners) and modeling long-running, stateful workflows
• Thrive in a fast-paced, execution-driven environment and have a proven track record of delivering impactful storage solutions

Location and schedule

• Onsite in San Francisco, California
• You must be located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, or the New York Metro Area for this hybrid position. You will report into the Engineering Manager on our Storage team within the Core Infrastructure Organization

Salary and benefits

US base salary $130,600 to $342,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.