Engineering Manager, Search Platform

Job description

About the Team
DoorDash is looking for an Engineering Manager with a strong platform mindset to lead the Search Platform team.

We are on a mission to build a reliable, fast, and scalable search platform for DoorDash.

This team is responsible for providing capabilities like search indexing, retrieval and ranking to help consumers find the most relevant merchants and products on DoorDash.

We work across three dimensions.

Scale - DoorDash has millions of merchants and billions of items.

We index over a billion documents in our index and serve thousands of QPS running expensive operations on millions of documents per second.

This requires the platform to be scalable, reliable, fast, and provide high app quality.

AI/ML (aka Quality) - Machine Learning engineers regularly experiment with new relevance algorithms to improve search quality.

This requires the platform to provide relevance capabilities like hybrid search, semantic search, query understanding, multi-stage ranking to improve recall and precision.

Product Velocity - Search powers more than 20 verticals, including Retail, Discovery (Feed), and Ads, with several engineers building new product experiences on top of the platform.

This requires the platform to enable product teams to experiment with new ideas with minimal friction.

The team is a part of Core Consumer org, which owns the top of the conversion funnel from the initial landing page to checkout across iOS, Android, and Web platforms.

As Doordash expands into new verticals like Grocery, there is a growing need to help consumers easily find what they want.

So, the opportunity is massive and we are just getting started!
About the Role
As the manager, you will lead a team of highly skilled engineers to build the Search Platform.

You will partner with product, ML and Infrastructure teams across DoorDash to build a world-class, reliable, fast, scalable Search Platform.

You will be responsible for driving the technical vision, strategy, and execution of the team charter.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

+ Effectively lead a diverse engineering team with a large scope across multiple areas, and navigate the complexities of operating at scale

+ Build an outstanding team by coaching and empowering engineers through delegation, and applying your technical expertise to hold your team to the highest engineering standards

+ Recruit and nurture top engineering talent, promoting continuous learning and a culture of product-driven development

+ Inspire your team with your technical vision, collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute a strategic roadmap

+ Practice muscles like ruthless prioritization, crisis management

+ Roll up your sleeves with hands-on problem-solving when necessary

We're excited about you because you have…

+ B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent

+ 10+ years of industry experience

+ At least 2 years of leadership experience

+ Prior experience building highly available, scalable, and reliable distributed systems

+ Strong communication skills and hands-on experience working with cross-functional stakeholders

+ Ability to guide and grow an excellent engineering team in a rapidly changing business environment

+ Experience with Search/Information Retrieval/ML or stateful distributed systems like storage is a big plus




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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.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here (https://careers.doordash.com/) .

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).


The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$193,800 — $285,000 USD


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 including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.


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.

Statement of Non-Discrimination : In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status.

Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office.

Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash.

We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.



Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, 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.

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