Software Engineer, Event Streaming, Storage

About the Team

The Storage organization at DoorDash designs, builds, and operates the company’s most critical stateful infrastructure. These systems power Tier 0 critical workloads across all DoorDash business lines and brands. Storage works closely with Core Infrastructure, Networking, and Application teams to support DoorDash’s global growth. Storage’s vision contributes to DoorDash's success by reducing operational burden and empowering developers to focus on building products our customers love.

Within Storage, the Event Streaming team builds and operates Event Bus, DoorDash's unified, mission-critical, near real-time eventing platform. This infrastructure simplifies complexities of platforms like Kafka, aiming for simple, scalable, and cost-efficient streaming. It provides standardized APIs, self-serve tooling, controller-based autoscaling, and reliability features (e.g., backpressure, DLQ). This allows product teams to focus on business logic while the platform guarantees reliable, consistent data movement for operational and analytical needs.

About the Role

As an Engineer on the Event Streaming team, you won’t just be using infrastructure, you’ll be architecting the very primitives that power DoorDash’s event driven ecosystem. This is a high leverage role where you’ll lead the design and implementation of complex distributed systems. You’ll be the person driving the efficiency and reliability platform for our multi-tenant while we scale to even higher QPS.

If you're passionate about distributed event streaming/messaging systems, developer experience, and building foundational infrastructure at scale, we'd love to hear from you.

You must be located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, or the New York Metro Area for this hybrid position. You will report into the Engineering Manager on our Storage team within the Core Infrastructure Organization.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Drive innovation in storage architecture by identifying and addressing scalability and efficiency challenges in distributed systems.


• Design and build gRPC-based high-throughput, low-latency streaming services that handle batch delivery, strict ordering, and error isolation, effectively bridging the gap between RPC simplicity and Kafka’s power.


• Lead the end-to-end execution of critical features, from initial design, implementation and pragmatic tradeoff discussions (latency vs. throughput vs. cost) to production deployment and monitoring.


• Expand our capabilities in cross environment routing and multi tenant safeguards (rate limiting, quota enforcement) to ensure the platform remains resilient as DoorDash grows.


• Partner with internal teams like Graph Runner, Storage Orchestration, and Data Mobility to land mission critical use cases, including CDC (Change Data Capture) pipelines and complex integration flows.


• Enhance the developer experience by creating intuitive APIs and self-serve tooling that decouple business logic from underlying storage complexities.

We’re excited about you because…

• You have deep expertise in event streaming/queueing systems like Kafka, SQS, Redpanda, RabbitMQ etc.


• You have 4+ years of experience in designing, building and maintaining scalable, distributed data infrastructure.


• You are proficient in GoLang, or Java with a deeper expertise in multi-threading, distributed systems and databases.


• You have experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)


• You have built and optimized high-scale data storage systems with a focus on reliability, availability, and performance.


• You thrive in a fast-paced, execution-driven environment and have a proven track record of delivering impactful storage solutions.

 

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Compensation

The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here .

See below for paid time off details:

• For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.


• For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).

The national base pay ranges for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

I4

$130,600 - $192,000 USD

I5

$159,800 - $235,000 USD

I6

$193,800 - $285,000 USD

About DoorDash

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.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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.

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