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Senior Staff Software Engineer (Search)

1 hour, 17 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Software Engineer
Software Development
LLM Machine Learning
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DoorDash

DoorDash

DoorDash empowers small business owners by providing an affordable and convenient platform for local delivery services, primarily focusing on restaurant food delivery.

Air Freight & Logistics
10K-50K
Founded 2012
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Description

  • Serve as the technical lead for the Search organization and provide org-wide architectural direction.
  • Own the multi-year technical roadmap across indexing, serving, and backend systems for search.
  • Architect and drive the rebuild of core search infrastructure, including indexing pipelines and embedding-based retrieval.
  • Lead ML ranker serving work in latency-sensitive paths that support consumer search and agentic commerce experiences.
  • Partner with Machine Learning, Product, Infrastructure, and partner engineering teams to align on technical direction and execution.
  • Mentor staff and senior engineers across the search organization to raise technical standards.
  • Set engineering practices and patterns for designing, shipping, and operating large-scale systems.
  • Work through complex distributed systems challenges such as low-latency serving and indexing freshness tradeoffs.
  • Write code and contribute directly to high-impact technical solutions.

Requirements

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • 10+ years of industry experience leading large-scale, high-impact components and systems.
  • Proven ability to drive multi-quarter technical roadmaps as a technical lead.
  • Clear ownership of architectural decisions for complex systems.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems and data pipelines at scale.
  • Experience with search infrastructure, including indexing and serving stacks.
  • Strong understanding of ML systems, embedding-based retrieval, model serving tradeoffs, and multi-stage ranking architectures.
  • Strong ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Humility and a growth mindset, with a collaborative approach to leadership.
  • Experience working on mission-critical products at scale (implied by the role context).

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $231,200 to $340,000 USD.
  • Opportunities for equity grants.
  • 401(k) plan with employer matching.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • 11 paid holidays.
  • Disability and basic life insurance.
  • Wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off, and paid sick leave.
  • Flexible paid time off/vacation for salaried roles, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
  • Family-forming assistance and a mental health program.

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