Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Labs

About the Team

DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We are working on building autonomous delivery robots from the ground-up as part of DoorDash's core delivery platform. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you!

About the Role

We’re hiring an Infrastructure Software Engineer. In this role, you’ll work with multiple stakeholders, including Autonomy Engineering and Operations, to develop and improve our infrastructure. The Infrastructure team designs, builds, and operates the infrastructure that enables large-scale simulation testing, continuous integration, and machine learning.

You’re excited about the role because you will…

• Have significant scope and decision-making responsibility
• Design and implement infrastructure to enable autonomous vehicle development, including:
  • Large-scale distributed simulation execution
  • Ingest, processing, and organization of petabyte-scale datasets
  • GPU-accelerated distributed computing for data preparation and training
• Design and implement robot data and metrics pipelines
• Collaborate with core autonomy teams: motion planning, perception, and simulation

We’re excited about you because you have…

• A B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science, Robotics or related technical field
• In-depth knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Strong Python programming experience
• Experience with operationalizing large-scale systems
• Experience with at least one distributed data processing framework (Ray, Spark, Flink, etc)
• Passionate about software quality and reliability
• Nice to have:
  • C++
  • SQL
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Experience with GPU-accelerated systems
  • Robotics domain experience/knowledge

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis

Compensation

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.

• 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).