Software Engineer, Distributed Databases

Remote
Full-time
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About the role

About the Team The mission of the Database and Messaging team is to build and operate online stateful systems that are reliable, scalable, and easy to use for the rest of DoorDash engineering. The team is responsible for providing foundational infrastructure for all of the Core Storage, Caching, and Messaging use cases at DoorDash. We work on CockroachDB, Kafka, AWS Aurora, Cassandra, and AWS ElastiCache for now. We are bootstrapping some long term bets in all of these areas and looking for founding engineers.

The engineer would be responsible for one or more of the following

  • Own and improve the scalability, reliability of our databases, caching, messaging infrastructure.
  • Develop expertise and make Cockroach DB successful at DoorDash.
  • Help build Automation and Tooling for Cassandra, Cockroach DB.
  • Build data gateway service to act as an entry layer for all our data systems on cloud.
  • Work with customers to provide easy-to-use client abstractions, define and own APIs we support for our database systems.

About DoorDash

Restaurant delivery.

Required skills

Cassandra
Go
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
SQL Server
DynamoDB
RDS/Aurora
Distributed Systems
Data Modeling

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Job details

Location

Remote

Experience

1+ years

Company

NameDoorDash
IndustryFood and Beverage
Team Size8600

Funding

Total raised

$2.5B

Last stage

Public

Investors

Y Combinator
Sequoia Capital
SoftBank Vision Fund
Khosla Ventures
Kleiner Perkins

Founders

Tony Xu

Tony Xu

Co-Founder & CEO

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Andy Fang

Andy Fang

Co-Founder

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Stanley Tang

Stanley Tang

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.