Distributed Systems Engineer, Cassandra, Storage at DoorDash

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Key Responsibilities

• Play a foundational role in shaping the direction of Cassandra ecosystem at DoorDash, helping define long-term strategy and platform capabilities.
• Build the future of Cassandra at DoorDash, including self-serve provisioning, elastic scaling, multi-tenant controls, and deeply integrated observability.
• Operate one of DoorDash’s most critical stateful systems, supporting high-throughput, low-latency production workloads at scale.
• Partner with the Storage Orchestration team to define automation and fleet management capabilities.
• Lead architectural improvements that enhance availability, fault tolerance, consistency, and multi-region durability.
• Define operational standards for schema governance, disaster recovery, backup and restore, and capacity planning.
• Have the chance to troubleshoot, debug and learn from interesting production problems at multiple layers of the infrastructure stack.

Required Qualifications

• You have 5+ years of experience building distributed systems with deep understanding of Cassandra internals, including replication, compaction, GC tuning, and JVM performance.
• You have experience managing large fleets of database clusters, including building tools, monitoring, capacity planning, backups and disaster recovery strategies.
• You are proficient in system-level fundamentals including operating systems, hardware, and networking.
• You understand the tradeoffs of distributed system consistency, failure modes, and partition tolerance.
• You have contributed to or are interested in contributing to open-source distributed database projects.
• You thrive in a fast-paced, execution-driven environment and have a proven track record of delivering impactful storage solutions.
• Must be comfortable regularly exercising discretion and independent judgment in performing job duties, including evaluating options, making informed decisions, and determining appropriate courses of action within the scope of assigned responsibilities.

Key Skills

• building distributed systems
• Cassandra internals (replication, compaction, GC tuning, JVM performance)
• managing large fleets of database clusters (tools, monitoring, capacity planning, backups, disaster recovery)
• system-level fundamentals (operating systems, hardware, networking)
• distributed system consistency, failure modes, partition tolerance
• contributing to open-source distributed database projects
• thriving in fast-paced, execution-driven environments
• delivering impactful storage solutions
• exercising discretion and independent judgment

DoorDash Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• wellness benefits
• commuter benefits match
• paid time off
• paid sick leave
• medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• disability and basic life insurance
• family-forming assistance

Salary Range

$1,30,600 - $2,85,000 USD annually

Job Summary

About the Team

The Storage teams build and operate online stateful systems and abstractions that are reliable, efficient, secure and easy to use for DoorDash Engineering. The Cassandra team under Storage is looking for passionate distributed systems engineers to architect and scale the next evolution of our Cassandra ecosystem. This team plays a critical role in scaling and hardening DoorDash's foundational key-value storage systems, powering mission-critical Tier 0 workloads across the company. This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of Cassandra at DoorDash, designing and scaling systems to meet 100x growth demands. You will help evolve our Cassandra ecosystem with a focus on end to end automation including building a self-service control plane, deep observability, and advanced ...

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