Software Engineer, Product
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Description

Come help us build the world's most reliable on-demand, logistics engine for delivery! We're bringing on talented engineers to help us create and maintain a 24x7, no downtime, global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash's three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers.

At DoorDash, our product engineers work at the intersection of product and infrastructure to scale and operate the backend services and architecture supporting product functionality. You will be challenged to evaluate and execute on these tradeoffs to make the most business impact on the company.

What You'll Achieve

* Develop, release and run large-scale web applications
* Develop and define the backend architecture and tech stack for a product area
* Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for our backend systems
* Be involved in transitioning our monolithic codebase to a microservice-based architecture
* Completely disrupt logistics by tackling bleeding-edge, technical problems

About You

* High-energy and confident - you'll do whatever it takes to win
* You're an owner - driven, focused, and quick to take ownership of your work
* Humble - you're willing to get into the details and you're open to feedback
* Adaptable, resilient, and able to thrive in ambiguity - things change quickly in our fast-paced startup and you'll need to be able to keep up!
* Growth-minded - you're eager to expand your skill set and excited to carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting
* Desire for impact - ready to take on a lot of responsibility and work collaboratively with your team

Qualifications

* B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent
* 5+ years of industry experience
* Prior experience working with backend tech stacks
* Able to analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
* Experience with service oriented architecture, writing REST API's, unit testing, and architectural design
* Expertise in web technologies such as Rails/Django and JavaScript frameworks
* Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (HTTP, REST)
* Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and other technologies (e.g. Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ)

Nice To Haves

* Experience building large scale, real-time applications
* Contributor to open source projects

Interview Process

* Technical Phone Interview
* 75 minutes
* Recommend using strongest language of your choice
* Graded on CS fundamentals, problem solving, general domain knowledge, and communication


* Onsite Interview
* Two coding rounds, evaluating CS fundamentals and problem solving skills
* Domain Knowledge, discussing 1-2 projects you've led in your area of technical depth
* Systems Design, thinking of architectural decisions at a high level

About Us

Founded in 2013, DoorDash is a San Francisco-based technology company passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. Today, DoorDash connects customers with their favorite local and national businesses in more than 1,000 cities across the United States and Canada. By building intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, DoorDash aims to connect people with the things they care about - one dash at a time.