Staff Software Engineer, Storage - Taulu
Core
Domain specialist for DoorDash's storage abstraction platform, ensuring reliability, performance, and correctness of Tier-0 distributed systems serving millions of QPS.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Storage Abstraction)
Builds
Unified data-access layer, proxy, KV, CDC, and routing systems for DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo.
Domain
Distributed systems, storage internals, data-plane infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Large-scale distributed systems, Tier-0 storage/data-plane expertise, storage abstraction layers, low-latency/high-throughput optimization, Go, storage internals (MVCC, GC, consistency, replication, CDC), Staff-level technical leadership, Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, observability, AI coding tools
Preferred skills
Cassandra internals, client/SDK/code-generation layers, open-source contributions to storage/distributed systems
Technologies
Go, Kubernetes, DynamoDB, RocksDB, ZippyDB, Cassandra
Responsibilities
Own reliability and performance of the storage platform at scale, set technical direction for architecture and long-term approach, work deep in the data plane on latency and routing issues, shape the client surface and SDKs, act as a trusted technical advisor and mentor, take end-to-end ownership of the platform lifecycle, design systems for exponential growth, translate business needs into storage solutions
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership
