📋 Job Overview
The Experimentation Platform Team develops a state-of-the-art platform in industry that enables Product Engineers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers and non-technical audiences to come up with hypotheses; design, configure and analyze experiments; and conduct exploratory and causal analysis. At DoorDash, where we run thousands of experiments per year, our mission is to equip all decision makers with rigorous, data-driven insights by democratizing experimentation with quality and velocity. The team consists of a mix of experienced veterans of backend, web, statistical and data infra engineers and work closely with the data science community.
🏢 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 by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order 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.
🎯 The Role
If you want to solve the toughest engineering challenges, build cutting-edge experimentation products under rigorous operational constraints (high volume, correctness guarantees) and work with some of the smartest people in the industry, DoorDash’s Experimentation Platform is the right place for you. As a full stack engineer, you’ll build across our backend services, SDKs, and the Decision Portal UI used by thousands of internal users. Come join us and be part of the mission.
You will report into the engineering manager on our Decision Experience team as part of the Decision Systems team. We expect this role to be hybrid (San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, New York) with some time in-office and some time remote.
✅ Key Responsibilities
- Work on dramatically enhancing and simplifying the Experimentation platform which is used by almost every engineer in the company.
- Have the opportunity to build a new Experimentation platform from the ground up and make your mark on the system design as well as product experience.
- Own features end-to-end, from APIs and data models to the React UI in our Decision Portal, context switching between frontend, backend, and data as the need arises.
- Work alongside our Product Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, ML Engineers and Data Infrastructure engineers to collaborate on important projects that need user interfaces and tools needed for workflows, data discovery, integrations and visualizations of various analytics.
- Introduce cutting-edge technologies, including LLM-powered tools, into how DoorDash configures, launches, and reads out experiments.
- Evolve the platform to handle new statistical methodologies, machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies and advanced causal inference and data mining techniques.
📌 Required Qualifications
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 2+ years of industry experience building web applications end-to-end, using TypeScript with React on the frontend.
- Exceptionally strong knowledge of CS fundamental concepts and OOP languages.
- Deep understanding of REST/gRPC principles and experience designing, implementing, and consuming backend APIs.
- Great understanding of database technologies and choosing the right kind of storage layers for the problem at hand.
- Backend experience with Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go.
- Experience with documentation, unit, integration, and end-to-end testing across frontend and backend.
- A product mindset that you apply to how you build platform services and user-facing tools.
- Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) across the full software development lifecycle, including design, code generation, testing, monitoring, and release.
⭐ Desirable Experience
- Experience building internal tools, admin consoles, or developer platforms used across many teams.
- Prior experience with the nuanced world of Experiment configurations and feature flagging products.
- Experience with any of the “Big Data” technologies (e.g., Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, Mode, Segment, Spark, etc.).
- Experience in any data-science related subjects such as analytics, statistics, machine learning, etc.
Familiarity with cloud-based environments such as AWS.
🎁 Benefits
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.
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).
🛂 Visa & Eligibility
We will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.
If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.
