Senior Software Engineer, Data Control

DoorDash; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Data Control Engineer to enhance their data platform. The role involves collaborating with engineering teams to ensure reliability and scalability of data systems. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in systems engineering and big data technologies.

Benefits

401(k) plan with employer matching

16 weeks of paid parental leave

Wellness benefits

Paid time off

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Mental health program

Qualifications

• 6+ years of industry experience in building big data systems.
• Experience with distributed query engines and orchestration frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Drive vision and strategy for data platform frameworks.
• Scale analytical platform for increasing data volumes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to build solutions.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Big Data Processing

Reliability

Scalability

Cost Efficiency

Collaboration

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

M.S. in Computer Science

PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Apache Spark

Apache Flink

Presto

Trino

Airflow

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Sunnyvale, CA; New York, NY

About the Team

The Data Control team provides the core compute and orchestration platform to power the current and next generation of data driven products at DoorDash. The team focuses on automation, reliability, and scalability while simplifying the experience for their end-users through curated abstractions. It aims to provide APIs for managing data infrastructure resources, ensuring vendor neutrality and automating common infrastructure management functions. Operationally, it serves as a single point of contact for vendors and focuses on capacity planning, cost optimization, and outage management.

About the Role

As a member of the Data Control team you’ll partner closely with Data Engineering, Analytics, ML Platform in addition to product engineering teams to provide a best in class data platform. This role needs to focus on maintaining flexibility while providing a guided, self-service experience that scales efficiently with the ever growing data volume and user demand.

You must be located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle or New York City for this hybrid position. You will report into the Engineering Manager on our Data Control team.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• 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 because…

• B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent.6+ years of industry experience.
• Prior experience in Systems Engineering - you've built meaningful big data processing systems at scale, and have experience with big data compute engines such as Apache Spark and Apache Flink.
• Familiarity with distributed query engines Presto/Trino, Spark SQL or distributed OLAP stores Apache Pinot, ClickHouse or Star Rocks.
• Familiarity with orchestration frameworks such as Airflow or Dagster
• Familiarity with Data Lakes and table formats such as Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg.
• Familiarity with a cloud based environment such as AWS and managing services on Kubernetes.
• Professional experience with at least one of the programming languages such as Java, Scala Python or Go. Good knowledge of SQL.
• You are located or willing to relocate to the Bay Area, Seattle or NYC.

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Compensation

The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes 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). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here .

See below for paid time off details:

• For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
• For 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).

I4

$130,600 — $192,000 USD

I5

$159,800 — $235,000 USD

I6

$193,800 — $285,000 USD

About DoorDash

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.

DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.

Statement of Non-Discrimination : In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.

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