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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Search

📍 Location
San Francisco
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
June 07, 2026

About the Role

About the Team
We are on a mission to build a reliable, fast, and scalable search for DoorDash. As a product, we help millions of customers find the stores, items, and experiences they want. As a platform, we provide indexing, retrieval, ranking, and query understanding capabilities to internal customer teams across more than 20 verticals. Our work spans three dimensions: scale (over a billion indexed documents, thousands of QPS, expensive operations on millions of documents per second), product (improving search experience for DoorDash customers and enabling product teams across many surfaces to experiment with minimal friction using search infrastructure), and quality (query understanding, multi-stage ranking, and semantic search capabilities to improve search relevance and drive conversion).

This is a pivotal moment for Search. We are evolving the platform to support the next generation of consumer experiences, from semantic search to agentic commerce experiences powered...

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