Staff Software Engineer, Storage - Taulu

The role

You will own the reliability, performance, and correctness of the storage abstraction platform at scale. You will set technical direction for the storage abstraction, data-access layer, provider model, caching, and routing.

What you will do

• Own the reliability, performance, and correctness of the storage abstraction platform at scale
• Set technical direction for the platform including architecture, quality, and long-term approach
• Work in the data plane on latency, request routing, hot partitions, and failure isolation
• Shape the client surface including providers, polyglot code generation, and SDKs
• Act as a technical advisor and mentor senior engineers
• Take end-to-end ownership of the platform lifecycle
• Design and operate systems built for 100x growth
• Translate ambiguous business needs into storage-owned solutions

Required qualifications

• 10+ years building large-scale distributed systems
• Deep expertise in at least one Tier 0 storage / data-plane system
• Experience with storage abstraction layers or data-access gateways
• Expertise in low-latency, high-throughput systems
• Strong Go experience in production distributed systems
• Deep, hands-on grasp of storage internals: MVCC, GC/compaction, consistency models, replication, and/or CDC
• Proven ownership of Tier 0 / mission-critical services
• Demonstrated Staff-level technical leadership
• Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure
• Strong observability instincts (metrics, tracing, profiling)
• Proficiency in using AI coding tools in the full software development lifecycle

Nice to have

• Cassandra (or comparable wide-column/NoSQL) internals and operations
• Built client/SDK, code-generation, or provider/abstraction layers across polyglot clients
• Open-source contributions to storage, database, or distributed-systems projects

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Wellness benefits
• Commuter benefits match
• Paid time off
• Paid sick leave
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• Disability and basic life insurance
• Family-forming assistance
• Mental health program

About the company

DoorDash is a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery. The company is growing rapidly and changing constantly.