Senior Software Engineering, Backend
DoorDash India · Posted Oct 29
Software development, engineering support, and technology services for a global local commerce platform
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About the role
DoorDash operates a 24x7 global logistics infrastructure that powers its three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers. The Data User Platform and Programs team works at the intersection of data infrastructure, reliability, governance, developer tooling, and AI systems, supporting thousands of internal data users including engineers, analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders. This role, part of a founding engineering team in India, works on platform foundations for reliability, observability, cost-efficiency, and compliance, a unified data discovery and catalog experience, and AI-powered assistants and workflows.
What you will do
- Improve scalability, performance, and reliability of data platform services through strong engineering practices
- Build and operate data discovery and metadata platforms that help users find the right datasets, dashboards, and metrics quickly and confidently
- Develop AI-enabled services and workflows, including self-serve tooling for creating, evaluating, and improving AI assistants
- Add observability, monitoring, and operational tooling to maintain platform SLAs and reduce incident response time
- Drive cost-efficient data platform design by identifying underutilized, redundant, or idle datasets, services, and compute resources
- Embed cost awareness into the data lifecycle, including:
- Designing systems that encourage reuse over duplication
- Instrumenting usage and cost signals into platform services
- Supporting safe deprecation and cleanup of stale data assets
- Partner with cross-functional teams in a fast-moving, product-driven environment
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- B.E./B.Tech., M.E./M.Tech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent
- 6+ years of experience with CS fundamental concepts and experience with at least one of the programming languages of Go, Java, and Python
- You have proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software
- Prior technical experience in Big Data infrastructure, Cost Efficiency & Governance, you've built meaningful pieces of data infrastructure. Bonus if those were open-sourced technologies like Spark, Clickhouse, Iceberg and Airflow
- Experience improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of data platforms
- Experience building or operating backend systems in production environments
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About DoorDash India
DoorDash Technologies India Private Limited acts as an Indian subsidiary and engineering/technology hub for DoorDash, Inc., supporting its global local commerce and delivery platform operations. The entity operates primarily as a corporate and technical setup in India rather than a consumer-facing delivery marketplace. It provides core technological backing, research, and software development services to the parent company.
- Industry
- Software & IT Services
- Company size
- 50-100 employees
- Founded
- 2020-01-23
- Location
- Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $2.5B raised
- 2020-06-18Series H$400M
Recent coverage
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