DoorDash · 20 hours ago
Distributed Systems Engineer, Cassandra, Storage
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$131K/yr - $192K/yr
5+ years expDoorDash is a technology and logistics company that aims to empower local economies. They are seeking a Distributed Systems Engineer to architect and scale their Cassandra ecosystem, focusing on reliability, operability, and efficiency in their distributed database infrastructure.
AppsDeliveryE-Commerce PlatformsFood DeliveryOnline Portals
Responsibilities
Play a foundational role in shaping the direction of Cassandra ecosystem at DoorDash, helping define long-term strategy and platform capabilities
Build the future of Cassandra at DoorDash, including self-serve provisioning, elastic scaling, multi-tenant controls, and deeply integrated observability
Operate one of DoorDash’s most critical stateful systems, supporting high-throughput, low-latency production workloads at scale
Partner with the Storage Orchestration team to define automation and fleet management capabilities
Lead architectural improvements that enhance availability, fault tolerance, consistency, and multi-region durability
Define operational standards for schema governance, disaster recovery, backup and restore, and capacity planning
Have the chance to troubleshoot, debug and learn from interesting production problems at multiple layers of the infrastructure stack
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience building distributed systems with deep understanding of Cassandra internals, including replication, compaction, GC tuning, and JVM performance
Experience managing large fleets of database clusters, including building tools, monitoring, capacity planning, backups and disaster recovery strategies
Proficient in system-level fundamentals including operating systems, hardware, and networking
Understand the tradeoffs of distributed system consistency, failure modes, and partition tolerance
Contributed to or are interested in contributing to open-source distributed database projects
Thrive in a fast-paced, execution-driven environment and have a proven track record of delivering impactful storage solutions
Must be comfortable regularly exercising discretion and independent judgment in performing job duties, including evaluating options, making informed decisions, and determining appropriate courses of action within the scope of assigned responsibilities
Benefits
401(k) plan with employer matching
16 weeks of paid parental leave
Wellness benefits
Commuter benefits match
Paid time off
Paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
11 paid holidays
Disability and basic life insurance
Family-forming assistance
Mental health program
Company
DoorDash
DoorDash is a food delivery platform that connects customers with local and national businesses. It is a sub-organization of DoorDash.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.22BKey Investors
Durable Capital PartnersT. Rowe PriceDarsana Capital Partners
2025-05-27Post Ipo Debt· $2.75B
2020-12-09IPO
2020-06-11Series H· $400M
Leadership Team
Tony Xu
CEO and Co-founder
Stanley Tang
Co-Founder / Chief Product Officer
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