Software Engineer, DoorDash
Storage Infrastructure
$140.1-210.1k
+ Equity grants; Salary applicable to NY and CA based candidates only
Local food delivery platform
Job no longer available
Local food delivery platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$140.1-210.1k
+ Equity grants; Salary applicable to NY and CA based candidates only
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower local economies by connecting food lovers with great local restaurants
Role
Who you are
- You are a technology leader
- You excel at mentoring and guiding a fast growing organization in setting the right architectural patterns, handling build vs buy decisions, working with various vendors in the database/storage space, making judicious investments in the right areas anticipating what the company needs a few years down the road
- You think of quick wins while planning for long term strategy and engineering excellence
- You are excited about breaking down large systems into manageable, sustainable components that can be iterated on
- You are excited about cross collaboration with stakeholders, external partners and peer engineering leaders
- You love rolling up your sleeves to get down to the lowest level of detail
- You have 3+ years of professional experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available distributed systems
- You have hands-on experience and expertise with large scale distributed database or caching systems (Ex: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, Redis, etc)
- Deep understanding of Database internals and query performance tuning
- Backend service and tool development in Golang, Kotlin and/or Python
- You have experience with incident response, disaster recovery, and are interested in making systems highly available
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the most critical long term technical roadmap of the storage team
- You will be working with the latest technologies through vendor relationships and proof of concepts, solving large complex problems, and defining new technology-enabled opportunities
- You will use your skills and experience in guiding the engineers and the management leadership on the right technical choices, mentor several senior engineers and hold a high bar of technical competency
- Drive decisions on complex or ambiguous storage architecture issues, coordinating with product team to determine requirements, and ensuring improvements are successfully implemented and monitored, finding ways to increase efficiency
- Maintain, troubleshoot and be on call for engineering and operational support
Otta's take
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
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 Xu
(CEO)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.
Stanley Tang
(CPO)Previously studied Computer Science at Stanford, before working at Facebook as a Software Engineer.
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