Software Engineer, Data Mobility Frameworks

Staff Software Engineer, Data Mobility Frameworks

San Francisco, CA;
Seattle, WA;
Sunnyvale, CA

Door Dash is a data driven organization and relies on timely, accurate and reliable data to drive many business and product decisions. The Core Data Platform org owns all the infrastructure necessary to run an operationally efficient analytical data stack. The Data Mobility Frameworks team within the core data platform aims to provide a scalable and reliable abstraction layer for data engineers and machine learning engineers to accomplish their analytics workflows.

Declarative data transformations, data quality assertions, metric cube computation and spark connectors to ML feature stores are some of the capabilities that the team enables.

As a Staff Engineer in the Data Mobility Frameworks team, you will provide technical leadership to enable the vision of a cost effective, AI infused, self-serve analytics platform leveraging open source products strategically. Your focus extends to fostering an engineering culture of excellence, acting as a force multiplier to deliver reliable solutions at scale.

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

• Drive vision & strategy for building the frameworks charter and position it to handle the challenges of a rapidly growing global business.
• Leverage AI to continuously improve team productivity. Make the products we build work well with AI tools.
• 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, evangelizing and partnering with other teams effectively.
• Foster a positive and supportive work culture, up leveling others.

• B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 8+ years of industry experience.
• 2+ years of experience at the staff level, providing technical leadership to the team.
• 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 Datalakes and table formats such as Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg.
• Familiarity with a cloud based environment such as AWS.
• 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 or Seattle.

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.

Door Dash 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). Door Dash 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.

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