Software Engineer, DoorDash

Machine Learning

$115.4-173k

Python
Tensorflow
Spark
Spring
PyTorch
Keep
Entry and Junior level
San Francisco Bay Area
DoorDash

Local food delivery platform

Job no longer available

DoorDash

Local food delivery platform

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceFoodConsumer GoodsDeliveryeCommerce

Job no longer available

$115.4-173k

Python
Tensorflow
Spark
Spring
PyTorch
Keep
Entry and Junior level
San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceFoodConsumer GoodsDeliveryeCommerce

Company mission

To empower local economies by connecting food lovers with great local restaurants

Role

Who you are

  • B.S., M.S. in Computer Science or related disciplines with graduation date between Spring 2022 and December 2023
  • At least 2 previous Software Engineering, Machine Learning internships, or equivalent work experience, with no more than 2 years of full-time work experience
  • Demonstrated expertise with programming languages, e.g. python, SciKit Learn, Lightgbm, Spark MLLib, PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc
  • Understanding of complex systems such as Marketplaces, and domain knowledge in two or more of the following: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Causal Inference, Ranking, Computer vision, NLP, Operations Research, Forecasting and Experimentation
  • Experience of shipping production-grade ML models and optimization systems, and designing experimentation techniques
  • You’re an owner — driven, focused, and quick to take ownership of your work
  • Humble — you’re willing to jump in and you’re open to feedback
  • Adaptable, resilient, and able to thrive in ambiguity — things change quickly in our fast-paced startup and you’ll need to be able to keep up!
  • Growth-minded — you’re eager to expand your skill set and excited to carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting
  • Desire for impact — ready to take on a lot of responsibility and work collaboratively with your team

Desirable

  • Able to analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various systems
  • Excited to develop, release, and run large-scale web applications
  • Experience with solutions for systems monitoring, live deployments, and continuous integration
  • Experience with real-time technology problems
  • Experience working with service oriented architecture, writing APIs, and designing systems

What the job involves

  • We are looking for highly motivated recent college graduates at DoorDash and as a Machine Learning Engineer, you will have the opportunity to leverage our robust data and machine learning infrastructure to develop inference and ML models that impact millions of users across our three audiences and tackle our most challenging business problems
  • You will work with other engineers, analysts, and product managers to develop and iterate on models to help us grow our business and provide the best service quality for our customers
  • Develop, maintain and ship technical elements with the support of your mentor, manager, and team members
  • Act on feedback, coaching, and mentorship from your mentor and team members
  • Actively learn about the elements to which you contribute
  • Make a direct impact on our business by collaborating with your team to solve problems for our customers
  • Build statistical and ML models that run in production to help enhance the consumer experience by reducing cancellations, pickup waiting times, delivery lateness, missing and incorrect items and non fulfilled orders. Build recommendation systems, and implement new AI solutions to expand restaurant selection and drive their growth
  • Own the modeling life cycle end-to-end including feature creation, model development and prototyping, experimentation, monitoring and explainability, and model maintenance
  • Being exposed to new opportunities where delivery quality can be used as a lever for demand shaping, search ranking, customer segmentation, etc
  • Mentor and uplevel a talented team of ML Engineers

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

DoorDash was an early entrant into the last-mile restaurant delivery business, which is now crowded with the likes of Uber Eats, Postmates and GrubHub. They offer restaurants an end-to-end delivery platform, generating new business and access to a network of delivery drivers.

To differentiate itself in the market, DoorDash focused on areas with fewer competitors and found success in this untapped market. Other factors, such as the company's targeting of restaurants which many not typically offer a delivery service, also contribute to its profitability. The company made its stock market debut in 2020 with one of the biggest IPOs of the year.

However, in light of increasing discontent around DoorDash's commission structure from restaurants, competition remains fierce. The business recently responded by publishing a transparent fee structure, but the number of options open to restaurants means DoorDash must fight to keep its customers loyal. Despite this, by focusing on consumer retention, logistics and technology, the company is likely able to maintain its existing growth and revenue.

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

13% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)

Jun 2020

$400m

SERIES H

Nov 2019

$100m

SERIES G

Total funding: $2.5bn

Company benefits

  • Company stock options
  • Work from home stipend
  • Unlimited paid time off policy
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Company values

  • We are doers
  • We are learners
  • We are leaders
  • We are one team

Company HQ

Mid-Market, San Francisco, CA

Founders

Tony studied at UCB and worked as a Matrix Partners Associate while studying for an MBA at Stanford. He combined this experience to co-found DoorDash in January 2013, and has served as CEO since June 2013.

Previously studied Computer Science at Stanford, before working at Facebook as a Software Engineer.

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