Analytics Engineer, Data Science
About The Team
The Analytics Engineering team at DoorDash is embedded within the Analytics and Data Engineering Orgs, and is responsible for building internal data products that scale decision-making across business teams and drive efficiency in our operations. Data is fundamental to DoorDash’s success, and this team plays a critical role in enabling high-impact, data-driven solutions across Product, Operations, Finance, and more.
About The Role
As an Analytics Engineer, you’ll play a key role in building and scaling the data foundations that enable fast, reliable, and actionable insights. You’ll work closely with partner teams to drive end-to-end analytics initiatives, working alongside Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Operators. This is a highly technical role where you'll be a driving force behind the analytics stack, delivering trusted data and metrics that support decision-making at all levels of the company.
You're Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will...
- Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, and business stakeholders to understand business needs, and translate that scope into data requirements
- Identify key business questions and problems to solve for, and generate insights by developing structured solutions to resolve them
- Lead the development of data products and self-serve tools that enable analytics to scale across the company
- Build and maintain canonical datasets by developing high-volume, reliable ETL/ELT pipelines using data lake and data warehousing concepts
- Design metrics and data visualizations with dashboarding tools like Tableau, Sigma, and Mode
- Be a cross-functional champion at upholding high data integrity standards to increase reusability, readability and standardization
Requirements
- 2-6+ years of experience working in business intelligence, analytics engineering, data engineering, or a similar role
- Strong proficiency in SQL for data transformation, comfort in at least one functional/OOP language such as Python or Scala
- Experience in creating compelling reporting and data visualization solutions using dashboarding tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau, Sigma)
- Familiarity with database fundamentals (e.g. S3, Trino, Hive, Spark), and experience with SQL performance tuning
- Experience in writing data quality checks to validate data integrity (e.g., Pydeequ, Great Expectations)
- Strong communication skills and experience working with technical and non-technical teams
- Comfortable working in fast paced environment, self starter and self organizing
- Able to think strategically, analyze and interpret market and consumer information
Qualifications
- Experience with data engineering tools and technologies
- Experience with data warehousing and data lakes
- Experience with data modeling and ETL processes
- Experience with data visualization tools
- Experience with data quality and validation techniques
- Experience with cloud-based data storage and processing services
Skills
- SQL
- Python/Scala
- Data visualization tools (Tableau, Sigma, Mode)
- Data warehousing and data lakes
- ETL processes
- Data modeling
- Data quality and validation techniques
- Cloud-based data storage and processing services
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act).
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability and basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance
- Mental health program
Pay
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. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future. In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.