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Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering

DoorDash

Location

San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, Seattle, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

10/15/2026

Compensation

$143,800 - $211,500 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202697.5% approval+1% YoY
💎 Strong sponsor

Job description

The Senior Data Engineer role at DoorDash is focused on scaling the data infrastructure and automation to support growing business needs. The Data Engineering team is essential for building database solutions that facilitate reporting, product analytics, and marketing optimization. This hybrid position requires the candidate to be located in Sunnyvale, San Francisco, or Seattle. The successful candidate will work closely with business partners and engineering teams to ensure high-quality data management and support other engineers in the team.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering or a similar role.
  • 3+ years of experience working with ETL orchestration and workflow management tools like Airflow, Flink, Oozie, and Azkaban using AWS/GCP.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or Java.
  • Expertise in database fundamentals, SQL, and distributed computing.
  • 3+ years of experience with distributed data ecosystems like Spark, Hive, Druid, or Presto and streaming technologies such as Kafka or Flink.
  • Experience with Snowflake, Redshift, PostgreSQL, or other DBMS platforms.
  • Excellent communication skills and experience working with both technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

  • Work with business partners and stakeholders to understand data requirements.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product teams, and third parties to collect required data.
  • Design, develop, and implement large scale, high volume, high performance data models and pipelines for Data Lake and Data Warehouse.
  • Develop and implement data quality checks, conduct QA, and implement monitoring routines.
  • Improve the reliability and scalability of ETL processes.
  • Manage a portfolio of data products that deliver high-quality, trustworthy data.
  • Help onboard and support other engineers as they join the team.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Doordash Inc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

92

FY2026

Approval rate

97.5%

FY2026

LCA certified

140

FY2026

Entry-level share

20.7%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

+1%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-74%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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