About the Role

DoorDash is building the world's most reliable on-demand, logistics engine for delivery. We are continuing to grow rapidly and expanding our Engineering offices globally! We are looking for iOS Engineers to build and maintain a large scale 24x7 global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash's 3-sided marketplace of Consumers, Merchants and Dashers.

We’re looking for iOS Engineers who want to work on building an app that’s used by millions of people and critical to local entrepreneurs building their online presence. We’ve seen significant growth in our codebase and number of developers and we’d love for you to bring a piece of your culture and experiences into ours so that we can continue to improve our processes and architecture. Whether you’re an engineer interested in scaling our mobile infrastructure or building awesome product features, we’d love to talk to you! 

This role is hybrid with some in-office time expected and will report to an Engineering Manager. 

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Work within our engineering teams to build exciting features
• Improve our code base through continuous refactoring
• Solve challenging real-time data transfer and synchronization problems
• Extend and implement our APIs
• Implement unit tests
• Keep up-to-date with the industry standards of iOS development

We're excited about you because you have…

• B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent
• Expert at Swift, and iOS SDK
• Familiarity with networking, storage, and Cocoapods
• Systems and OOP knowledge
• Experience building, launching, and iterating on mobile apps

About the Team

The Storage teams build and operate online stateful systems and abstractions that are reliable, efficient, secure and easy to use for DoorDash Engineering. The teams are responsible for understanding Product Engineering’s evolving needs and developing platform and infrastructure capabilities to serve them. The team currently supports CockroachDB, Cassandra, Kafka and Redis as well as data abstraction services to reduce the complexity of interacting with storage systems for Product Engineers.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Data Solutions Engineer with deep expertise in distributed databases, particularly Apache Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, and database agnostic abstractions. In this role, you will design, optimize, and scale distributed data access layers that power DoorDash’s most critical systems, ensuring high availability, low latency, and fault tolerance.

You’ll serve as a hands-on architect and technical partner to product engineering and infrastructure teams, helping translate complex business requirements into resilient and scalable data models. Your work will directly influence the evolution of Taulu, DoorDash’s unified storage abstraction layer, by shaping best practices and identifying platform gaps through real world engagements.

This is a high-impact, cross functional role that combines deep technical expertise with a customer centric approach. You’ll lead solutioning engagements from design through production, drive the adoption of Taulu modeling best practices, and ensure that our systems meet goals around reliability, cost efficiency, and velocity. You must be located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle or New York for this hybrid opportunity. 

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Design and implement highly scalable, fault tolerant distributed database solutions using Taulu, Apache Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, and other paved path storage solutions. 
• Architect and optimize multi-region, globally distributed systems to meet our high standards for availability, latency, and throughput.
• Lead data modeling, performance tuning, and capacity planning for large-scale, mission-critical storage workloads.
• Partner with product engineering and infrastructure teams to deeply understand domain specific data needs and guide them in adopting paved path storage solutions.
• Serve as the DRI for solutioning engagements, owning modeling in Taulu from experimentation through launch and scale.
• Shape the evolution of Taulu by identifying abstraction gaps and converting customer feedback into platform improvements.
• Apply workload-aware design patterns, including caching strategies, partitioning, and consistency tuning to improve performance and efficiency.
• Drive adoption of operational best practices across observability, schema design, capacity planning, and cost optimization across storage systems.
• Promote clarity and continuity by contributing to solutioning playbooks, decision logs, and architectural documentation.

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 10+ years of experience designing and scaling distributed data systems, with deep expertise in NoSQL technologies like Apache Cassandra, DynamoDB, or ScyllaDB.
• You have a strong command of distributed system concepts such as replication, partitioning, tunable consistency, and failure recovery.
• You’ve led data modeling efforts for high-throughput, low-latency workloads and understand the real-world trade-offs involved in NoSQL schema design.
• You are experienced with caching technologies like Redis or Memcached and know how to layer them effectively over storage systems to optimize for performance and cost.
• You have a customer-first mindset, and thrive when working closely with product and platform teams to translate complex requirements into clean, scalable data models.
• You are skilled at communicating complex architecture decisions and building alignment across infrastructure and product engineering organizations.
• You have a track record of mentoring engineers, influencing data architecture at scale, and fostering best practices in reliability, observability, and data access patterns.
• You document decisions, share learnings, and take pride in contributing to reusable playbooks and durable frameworks for others to build upon.
• Bonus: You’ve worked on or contributed to open-source distributed databases.  

Notice Regarding Use of AI and Automated Tools: To streamline our hiring process, DoorDash utilizes an automated recruitment tool called Gem.

How it works: Gem assists our recruiting team by evaluating job related qualifications and characteristics in connection with hiring. The tool is designed and used to support - rather than replace - human decision-making; trained personnel make final decisions with meaningful human review and oversight, and DoorDash does not use Gem or other AI-enabled tool  in a manner that has the effect of subjecting applicants or employees to discrimination based on any protected characteristic or proxy or for engaging in any protected activity under applicable law.

Data Retention, Privacy & Bias Audit: Data collected during this process is retained in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy and applicable state laws. In compliance with New York City Local Law 144, the independent bias audit summary for Gem is publicly available for review at our Careers Page. 

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