Staff Software Engineer, Storage Platform (Tier-0)
DoorDash USA
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Job summary
DoorDash is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Storage (Taulu) in a hybrid role across New York, Bay Area, or Seattle. You will own the storage abstraction platform's reliability and performance at scale, shaping architecture and driving cross-team collaboration.
You will work deep in the data plane, influence roadmap decisions, mentor engineers, and own end-to-end platform lifecycle from onboarding to adoption, enabling 100x growth with robust, scalable systems.
Qualifications
- 10+ years building large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with storage abstraction layers or data-access gateways.
- Strong Go experience in production distributed systems.
- Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure; strong observability instincts.
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability, performance, and correctness of the storage abstraction platform at scale.
- Set technical direction for the platform — storage abstraction, data-access layer, caching, and routing.
- Work deep in the data plane — proxy, KV, CDC, and routing to address Tier 0 latency and scalability.
- Shape the client surface — providers, code generation, and SDKs for polyglot clients.
- Mentor senior engineers and influence roadmaps beyond your scope.
- Own the platform lifecycle from onboarding through adoption and expansion.
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Job description
DoorDash is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Storage (Taulu) in a hybrid role across New York, Bay Area, or Seattle. You will own the storage abstraction platform's reliability and performance at scale, shaping architecture and driving cross-team collaboration.
You will work deep in the data plane, influence roadmap decisions, mentor engineers, and own end-to-end platform lifecycle from onboarding to adoption, enabling 100x growth with robust, scalable systems.
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