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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 Event Streaming and Caching teams under Storage are responsible for powering DoorDash’s most latency-sensitive, high-throughput, and mission-critical infrastructure. These systems are foundational to the company’s real-time data movement and ultra-fast data access. The team owns and operates platforms like Kafka, EventBus(internal kafka abstraction), Redis, EntityCache (internal RPC caching system), and Boulder (internal feature store infrastructure), providing reliable and scalable building blocks that support data-driven product experiences across all of DoorDash Engineering.

These systems are Tier 0, their availability directly impacts DoorDash's ability to serve customers and operate the business. As such, the team focuses on low-latency guarantees, operational excellence, and developer ergonomics

About the Role

We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Event Streaming and Caching teams. In this role, you will guide the development of high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems designed for real-time communication and low-latency data access. Your leadership will drive innovation in distributed messaging, pub/sub ecosystem, and caching architecture, enabling engineers across DoorDash to deliver rich, responsive, and scalable applications.

You will report into the Senior Engineering Manager of Storage within the Core Infrastructure Engineering Organization.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

+ Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers responsible for Kafka, EventBus, Redis, and in-house caching solutions like EntityCache and Boulder.

+ Drive architectural decisions for scalable event streaming systems and distributed caches used across DoorDash’s core product surfaces.

+ Cultivate deep domain expertise in open source distributed systems, real-time event pipelines, and multi-region cache topologies.

+ Champion operational excellence in incident management, monitoring, and remediation of Tier 0 services.

+ Partner with Storage Orchestration and Core Infrastructure to automate fleet management and improve service reliability.

+ Build, sustain, and grow a diverse team to address the growing needs of the organization.

We’re excited about you because…

+ You have 5+ years of backend infrastructure experience, including 2+ years leading engineering teams working on distributed systems.

+ Hands-on experience operating and scaling systems like Kafka, Redis, or equivalent open source platforms.

+ Understanding of distributed coordination, backpressure, AZ replication strategies in large-scale systems.

+ Experience leading Tier 0 or business-critical platform services.

+ You excel in technical leadership, providing guidance in architecture decisions, performance improvements, and team growth.

+ You are execution-driven, with a proven ability to deliver large-scale distributed storage solutions in fast-moving environments.

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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 (https://careers.doordash.com/) .

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 range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$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 with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering 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.

Statement of Non-Discrimination : In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

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