Staff Software Engineer, Event Streaming Systems (New York)

DoorDash connects customers with local businesses for delivery, from restaurants to grocery, retail and its own DashMart stores. The Storage organization builds and operates the online stateful systems and abstractions that DoorDash Engineering depends on: reliable, efficient, secure, and easy to use. Within Storage, the Event Streaming Systems team owns the event streaming platform that powers business-critical, event-driven workflows across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo, including Kafka, our event stre

Key responsibilities

• Set the multi-year technical vision and architecture for DoorDash's event streaming platform, and drive alignment in that direction across Storage
• Lead the largest and most ambiguous streaming initiatives end to end, such as re-architecting toward diskless
• Go deep on the internals of Kafka and modern streaming systems (WarpStream, AutoMQ, and similar)
• Own architectural decisions with company-wide blast radius, from replication, consensus, and storage design to multi-region topology, capacity
• Debug and resolve the hardest distributed systems problems in production, including subtle correctness, performance
• Raise the technical bar through design reviews, mentorship of senior engineers, and by establishing the standards and patterns others build on

Requirements

• Deep 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production
• Operated event streaming systems such as Kafka at scale, and you understand their internals, including the log storage engine
• A strong engineer in Java, Go, or a similar language, with deep expertise in concurrency, distributed systems, and building reliable
• Led high-impact, cross-team initiatives from ambiguous problems to shipped outcomes
• Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, storage, and JVM-based systems, and you use them to reason about performance
• Understand the trade-offs of object-store-backed streaming, including write-path latency versus cost, cross-AZ network cost avoidance

Location and schedule

• Onsite in New York, New York
• You must be located in the New York Metro Area for this hybrid position. You will report to the Engineering Manager on our Event Streaming Systems team within the Storage organization

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.