Senior Staff Software Engineer (Search)
DoorDash · San Francisco, CA | Sunnyvale, CA | Seattle, WA · 346 Consumer Engineering
About this role
DoorDash is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in San Francisco, CA | Sunnyvale, CA | Seattle, WA. The posting calls out experience with LLMs, Distributed Systems, ETL, Machine Learning. Compensation is listed at $231,200–$340,000 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA | Sunnyvale, CA | Seattle, WA
- Department
- 346 Consumer Engineering
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Job description
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About the Team
We are on a mission to build a reliable, fast, and scalable search for DoorDash. As a product, we help millions of customers find the stores, items, and experiences they want. As a platform, we provide indexing, retrieval, ranking, and query understanding capabilities to internal customer teams across more than 20 verticals. Our work spans three dimensions: scale (over a billion indexed documents, thousands of QPS, expensive operations on millions of documents per second), product (improving search experience for DoorDash customers and enabling product teams across many surfaces to experiment with minimal friction using search infrastructure), and quality (query understanding, multi-stage ranking, and semantic search capabilities to improve search relevance and drive conversion).
This is a pivotal moment for Search. We are evolving the platform to support the next generation of consumer experiences, from semantic search to agentic commerce experiences powered by LLM. The architectural decisions we make now will define how DoorDash discovery works for the next decade.
About the Role
As a Senior Staff Engineer on Search, you will serve as the tech lead for the Search organization, driving the technical strategy and architectural direction for the entire search stack. You will own the multi-year technical roadmap spanning indexing, serving, and the backend systems that power search and agentic commerce experiences at DoorDash. This is an individual contributor role with org-wide technical authority.