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About the Role

DoorDash's storage abstraction platform is a unified data-access layer that sits in front of our databases and decouples application teams from the underlying storage engines. As DoorDash scales, this platform addresses challenges in latency, request routing, and reliability under exponential load. This role involves being a deep, opinionated technical leader for the platform, owning its reliability, performance, and correctness at scale, setting its technical direction, and raising the execution bar across the storage organization.

Responsibilities

Own the reliability, performance, and correctness of the storage abstraction platform at scale, independently leading resolution of mission-critical issues in ambiguous, high-pressure situations.
Set technical direction for the platform, owning the architecture, quality, and long-term approach as it scales.
Work deep in the data plane on problems defining a Tier 0 system, including latency, request routing, hot partitions, GC/MVCC behavior, and failure isolation.
Shape the client surface that connects application services to the platform.
Act as a force multiplier and trusted technical advisor, raising the execution and quality bar for your team and partners, mentoring senior engineers, and influencing roadmaps.
Take end-to-end ownership of the platform lifecycle, guiding customers from onboarding through adoption, driving the offering forward and expanding its impact.
Design and operate systems built for 100x growth, proactively engineering for exponential load and eliminating single points of failure.
Translate ambiguous business needs into durable, storage-owned solutions, and be an opinionated domain expert on how storage problems are best solved.

Requirements

10+ years building large-scale distributed systems, with deep expertise in at least one Tier 0 storage / data-plane system (distributed KV, database internals, caching, or a storage proxy/control plane).
Experience with storage abstraction layers or data-access gateways that decouple applications from the underlying databases.
Deep experience building or operating a large-scale distributed data store.
Expertise in low-latency, high-throughput systems, including tail-latency optimization, hot-partition and load balancing/routing, backpressure, and failure isolation.
Strong Go experience in production distributed systems.
Deep, hands-on grasp of storage internals: MVCC, GC/compaction, consistency models, replication, and/or CDC.
Proven ownership of Tier 0 / mission-critical services, including on-call leadership, incident resolution under ambiguity, and capacity and performance work at scale.
Demonstrated Staff-level technical leadership: setting direction across teams, acting as a force multiplier, and driving org-wide architectural decisions.
Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure; strong observability instincts (metrics, tracing, profiling).
Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle.

Skills

Distributed KV
Database internals
Caching
Storage proxy/control plane
Storage abstraction layers
Data-access gateways
Low-latency systems
High-throughput systems
Tail-latency optimization
Hot-partition and load balancing/routing
Backpressure
Failure isolation
Go
MVCC
GC/compaction
Consistency models
Replication
CDC
Kubernetes
Cloud-native infrastructure
Observability (metrics, tracing, profiling)
AI coding tools

Location

New York Metro Area
Bay Area
Seattle

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Staff-level
10+ years

Salary/Compensations

$193,800—$285,000 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
Flexible paid time off/vacation for salaried roles
80 hours of paid sick time per year for salaried roles

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.
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.