Software Engineer, Data and AI Platform

DoorDash, Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CASunnyvale, CA
Salary
$130,600–$192,000 / yr
Posted
14 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

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This role pays less than 69% of similar roles. Most pay $154,188–$228,987 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $161k versus about $192k for comparable roles.

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About DoorDash, Inc

DoorDash, Inc. is an American company operating online food ordering and food delivery. It trades under the symbol DASH. With a 56% market share, DoorDash is the largest food delivery platform in the United States.

DoorDash, Inc currently has 97 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $163,800–$240,900 across 96 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Data and AI Platform

The Software Engineer, Data and AI Platform joins the Data User Experience Engineering team to build products used by analysts, engineers, and executives. You will own the full path from question to answer, developing agentic analytics features, dashboard runtimes, and cross-filter semantics. Key responsibilities include building AI-enabled services for query authoring, evolving the semantic layer for metric modeling, and managing query federation across different engines. You will work with a warehouse and OLAP footprint including Snowflake, Spark, and Clickhouse. The role requires proficiency in Go, Python, AWS, and Kubernetes, along with experience in LLM-powered features, retrieval, grounding, and MCP or agent frameworks. You will solve complex problems regarding data discovery, metadata platforms, and prompt optimization to ensure accuracy in a high-stakes business environment.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1223 postings across 76 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Ship agentic analytics features to thousands of users with a focus on high data accuracy.
  • Build a data platform for authoring, dashboard runtime, scheduling, alerting, and content certification.
  • Stream large result sets to the browser and render dozens of interdependent tiles.
  • Develop AI-enabled services for agent-assisted query authoring and generated charts.
  • Evolve the semantic layer for metric modeling, definition governance, and lineage.
  • Own the query and adaptive caching path for planning, federation, and safe execution.
  • Develop self-serve tooling for creating, evaluating, and improving AI assistants.
  • Build and operate data discovery and metadata platforms to help users find datasets and metrics.

What we're looking for

  • Hold a B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or an equivalent degree.
  • Have 3+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
  • Possess strong backend fundamentals, specifically in Go and Python, with the ability to own a service in production.
  • Have experience shipping LLM-powered features to real users, including hands-on work with retrieval, grounding, and evaluation systems.
  • Have experience building data platform products such as semantic layers, data discovery, reporting applications, and caching systems.
  • Possess familiarity with cloud-based environments like AWS and Kubernetes in production.
  • Have experience with MCP, agent frameworks, or tool-calling architectures in production.
  • Have experience with traditional and modern reporting, data governance, and multi-tenant data platforms.
  • Possess experience with prompt and context optimization at scale, including caching and cost/latency tuning.
  • Full stack experience is a plus (preferred).

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