Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering

DoorDash USA•Sunnyvale, CA

18h•Onsite

About The Position

DoorDash is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Data to be a technical lead and help architect and scale our data reliability, data infrastructure, automation and tools to meet growing business needs. The Data Engineering team builds database solutions for various use cases including reporting, product analytics, marketing optimization and financial reporting. The team serves as the foundation for decision-making at DoorDash.

Requirements

8+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer and technical leader leading multiple projects
6+ years experience working in data platform and data engineering or a similar role
Proficiency in programming languages such as Python/Kotlin/Scala
4+ years of experience in ETL orchestration and workflow management tools like Airflow
Expert in database fundamentals, SQL, data reliability practices and distributed computing
4+ years of experience with the Distributed data/similar ecosystem (Spark, Presto) and streaming technologies such as Kaa/Flink/Spark Streaming
Excellent communication skills and experience working with technical and non-technical teams and knowledge of reporting tools
Comfortable working in fast paced environment, self starter and self organizing
Ability to think strategically, analyze and interpret market and consumer information
Must be located near one of our engineering hubs

Responsibilities

Own critical data systems that support multiple products/teams
Develop, implement and enforce best practices for data infrastructure and automation
Design, develop and implement large scale, high volume, high performance data models and pipelines for Data Lake and Data Warehouse
Improve the reliability and scalability of our Ingestion, data processing, ETLs, Reporting tools and data ecosystem services
Manage a portfolio of data products that deliver high-quality, trustworthy data
Help onboard and support other engineers as they join the team