Senior Software Engineer, Spark Platform
DoorDash, Inc
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This role pays less than 71% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$211,200 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $161k versus about $181k for comparable roles.
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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 187 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $144,800–$212,950 across 166 roles with salary data.
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Software Engineer, Spark Platform joins the Spark Platform team to manage and operate the company's Apache Spark ecosystem, including execution runtimes, remote shuffle services, cluster schedulers, and reliability tooling. This role involves building and maintaining an in-house platform that supports data, analytics, and machine learning workloads. Key responsibilities include managing multi-tenant scheduling, executor bin-packing on Kubernetes, cluster lifecycle automation, and developing observability and incident automation to ensure system sustainability. The ideal candidate will utilize Python, Go, Scala, or Java, along with SQL fluency, to solve complex distributed systems problems. Technical requirements include experience with Apache Spark at scale, Kubernetes controllers, and big-data schedulers like YuniKorn or Volcano. Additionally, the role requires familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, alongside expertise in cloud environments involving VPC networking and autoscaling primitives.
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