Data Engineer, Corporate Data

About the Team

At DoorDash, people are our most important asset. We build the capability to help our leaders make more informed decisions on identifying, attracting, developing, and retaining talent. We're looking for a Data Engineer to help us scale our analytics alongside DoorDash's enormous growth. Come build, experiment, and grow while shaping a best-in-class data team at DoorDash.

About the Role

DoorDash is seeking an experienced data engineer to join our People Analytics team. We're a data-driven organization, empowering local economies and our people to do the best work of their careers. This role will get in on the ground floor helping to build and support the data infrastructure powering our data-driven insights to attract, develop, and retain the best talent to power and grow DoorDash. You will support and scale our people reporting and analytics within the People Team. In this role, you will partner with a team of analysts, scientists, and engineers to develop the tools and insights for our people and decision-makers. Come help us enable our business to garner insights and be a builder, engineer, consultant, and security/privacy advocate. 

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Architect and engineer our data infrastructure for People data
• Design and implement data warehouse schemas, tables, and views to provide a source of true datasets
• Develop ETL pipelines using tools such as Airflow and dbt for data profiling, cleaning, and transformation
• Support self-service analytics projects by creating secure data structures
• Provide underlying data support for all People metrics (recruiting pipelines, attrition, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, compensation and benefits, etc.)
• Ensure data integrity across all People data
• Rigorously document system requirements and configuration to build operational excellence
• Understand and identify opportunities to improve, working closely with cross-functional teams
• Train peers on new processes and functionality as needed
• Help build data governance with a single source of truth

We're excited about you because you have…

• 5+ years of industry experience in data engineering or software engineering
• Experience deploying cloud architecture like dbt, Airflow, and Databricks in AWS
• Expert SQL skills and experience writing complex queries
• Proficiency authoring Airflow DAGs
• Experience with data observability and monitoring frameworks
• Strong business thinker, able to use 'first principles' to solve challenging business problems at their root level
• Data-driven, able to analyze data with strong attention to detail and accuracy, and passionate about telling the story behind the data hence turning the data into insight

Why You'll Love Working at DoorDash

• We are a technologically and data-driven business
• We are committed to our clients and connected through our vision of "Delivering Good"
• We love solving problems, thinking creatively, and trying new things
• We believe in autonomy & taking the initiative
• We are challenged, developed, and have a meaningful impact
• We take what we do seriously. We don't take ourselves seriously
• We have a smart, experienced leadership team that wants to do it right & is open to new ideas
• We offer great compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits
• You will be proud to say that you work for DoorDash and will know that the work you do brings joy to our clients every day

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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 with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering 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.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That's why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.

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