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About the Role

The Distributed Caching team owns provisioning of clusters and smart clients, providing a turnkey caching solution. You will drive Boulder's evolution for scalability, cost efficiency, and performance, re-platform the Distributed Lock Service, and build self-serve tooling for workload recommendations. You will focus on cache invalidation, replication, sharding, compaction, and failover, while developing guardrails, automation, and observability for operability.

Responsibilities

Own high-leverage caching and locking services with direct, measurable customer impact.
Build and scale Boulder, our KVRocks backed key-value store, including compaction, sharding, and domain isolation.
Re-platform the Distributed Lock Service onto a strongly consistent backend with sharding.
Contribute to the standardized smart caching client that bakes in failover, retry, and observability defaults.
Diagnose and resolve production issues and implement durable guardrails.
Collaborate closely with teams building on top of caching.

Requirements

6+ years of full-time experience designing, building, and operating distributed, stateful systems in production.
At least 2 years of experience with caching or key-value storage at meaningful scale.
Proficient in Go, or Java/Kotlin with deep expertise in concurrency, distributed systems, and production-grade backend services.
Hands-on experience with distributed caching technologies (Redis/Valkey, Memcached, or similar) and understanding their failure modes.
Understand distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, sharding and partitioning, replication, and consensus, and their trade-offs.
Experience building or operating systems requiring careful capacity planning and cost discipline.
Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle.

Skills

Go
Java/Kotlin
Concurrency
Distributed systems
Production-grade backend services
Distributed caching technologies (Redis/Valkey, Memcached)
Cache invalidation
Replication lag
Failover
Hot keys
Consistency models
Sharding and partitioning
Replication
Consensus
Capacity planning
Cost discipline
AI coding tools

Location

San Francisco
Seattle
New York Metro Area

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

6+ years of experience
2+ years of experience in caching or key-value storage

Salary/Compensations

$159,800—$235,000 USD

Benefits

401(k) plan with employer matching
16 weeks of paid parental leave
Wellness benefits
Commuter benefits match
Paid time off
Paid sick leave
Medical benefits
Dental benefits
Vision benefits
11 paid holidays
Disability and basic life insurance
Family-forming assistance
Mental health program

About the Company

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 by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order 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.

Equal Opportunity

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.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.
If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.