Analytics Engineer, Data Science

About The Team

The Analytics Engineering team at DoorDash is embedded within the Analytics and Data Engineering Orgs, responsible for building internal data products that scale decision-making across business teams and drive efficiency in 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.

Requirements

• You're excited about solving technical problems with data and being deeply embedded across several domains.
• You have strong proficiency in SQL for data transformation and comfort in at least one functional/OOP language such as Python or Scala.
• You have experience in creating compelling reporting and data visualization solutions using dashboarding tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau, Sigma).
• You have familiarity with database fundamentals (e.g., S3, Trino, Hive, Spark), and experience with SQL performance tuning.
• You have experience in writing data quality checks to validate data integrity (e.g., Pydeequ, Great Expectations).
• You have strong communication skills and experience working with technical and non-technical teams.
• You are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, self-starting, and self-organizing.
• You are able to think strategically, analyze, and interpret market and consumer information.

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.
• A mental health program.

Paid Time Off

• Salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
• Hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).