Software Engineer, Data Platform (All Teams)

About The Team

DoorDash is a data-driven organization that relies on timely, accurate, and reliable data to drive business and product decisions. The Core Data Platform organization owns all the infrastructure necessary to run an operationally efficient analytical data stack.

About The Roles

The Data Platform team spans data mobility frameworks, ingestion, infrastructure, tools, and governance. Together, they design and operate scalable compute and ingestion frameworks using technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, and modern lakehouse solutions, while also building abstractions and tools that simplify data workflows for engineers, analysts, and ML practitioners. In parallel, these teams establish strong data quality, cataloging, privacy, and compliance standards to ensure trust in analytics and regulatory adherence. As relatively high-impact teams, they offer engineers the opportunity to shape the roadmap, influence core platform decisions, and directly enable DoorDash’s business-critical insights and real-time personalization capabilities.

You're Excited About This Opportunity

• Drive vision & strategy for building the frameworks charter and position it to handle the challenges of a rapidly growing business.
• Scale the analytical platform for the increasing amounts of data and use cases.
• You will bring your expertise in building and operating high scale systems with a focus on reliability, scalability and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with stakeholders building solutions on top of the platform.
• Foster a positive and supportive work culture, upleveling others.

We're Excited About You

• B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 2+ years of industry experience at our I4 level, 5+ years of industry experience at our I5 level.
• Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software.
• Experience working on big data domains (streaming, batch, data lake OLAP) and promoting realtime insights and data analytics at scale using technologies such as Apache Kafka, Flink, Spark, Cassandra, Clickhouse, Iceberg etc.
• Prior technical experience in Big Data infrastructure & governance - you've built meaningful pieces of data infrastructure. Bonus if those were open-sourced technologies like DataHub, Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Flink.
• Experience improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of data platforms.
• You are located or willing to relocate to the Bay Area, Seattle, or New York.

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Compensation

The national base pay ranges for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

• I4: $130,600—$192,000 USD
• I5: $159,800—$235,000 USD
• I6: $193,800—$285,000 USD

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