Senior Analytics Engineer

About the Team
The Analytics Engineering team at DoorDash is embedded within the Analytics and Data Engineering Orgs, and is responsible for building internal data products that scale decision-making across business teams and drive efficiency in our operations. Data is fundamental to DoorDash's success, and this team plays a critical role in enabling high-impact, data-driven solutions across Product, Operations, Finance, and more.

About the Role
As an Analytics Engineer, you'll play a key role in building and scaling the data foundations that enable fast, reliable, and actionable insights. You'll work closely with partner teams to drive end-to-end analytics initiatives; working alongside Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Operators.

This is a highly technical role where you'll be a driving force behind the analytics stack, delivering trusted data and metrics that support decision-making at all levels of the company. If you're energized by solving technical problems with data and comfortable being deeply embedded across several domains, this role is for you

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, and business stakeholders to understand business needs, and translate that scope into data requirements
• Identify key business questions and problems to solve for, and generate insights by developing structured solutions to resolve them
• Lead the development of data products and self-serve tools that enable analytics to scale across the company
• Build and maintain canonical datasets by developing high-volume, reliable ETL/ELT pipelines using data lake and data warehousing concepts
• Design metrics and data visualizations with dashboarding tools like Tableau, Sigma, and Mode
• Be a cross-functional champion at upholding high data integrity standards to increase reusability, readability and standardization

We're excited about you because…

• 5+ years of experience working in business intelligence, analytics engineering, data engineering, or a similar role
• Strong proficiency in SQL for data transformation, comfort in at least one functional/OOP language such as Python or Scala
• Expertise in creating compelling reporting and data visualization solutions using dashboarding tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau, Sigma)
• Familiarity with database fundamentals (e.g., S3, Trino, Hive, Spark), and experience with SQL performance tuning
• Experience in writing data quality checks to validate data integrity (e.g., Pydeequ, Great Expectations)
• Excellent communication skills and experience working with technical and non-technical teams
• Comfortable working in fast fast-paced environment, self-starter, and self-organizer
• Ability to think strategically, analyze, and interpret market and consumer information

Nice to Have

• Experience with modern data warehousing platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift) and ability to optimize performance
• Experience building multi-step ETL jobs coupled with orchestrating workflows (e.g. Airflow, Dagster, DBT)
• Familiarity with experimentation concepts like A/B testing and their data requirements

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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.

If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.

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.

If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.

We use Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in certain locations.
The Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor. Results of the audit may be viewed here:

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