Analytics Engineer, Data Science

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.

• Consumer & Growth
• Business Operations
• Dasher & Logistics
• Customer Experience & Integrity
• Merchant
• Ads & Promotions 
• New Verticals

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 are comfortable being deeply embedded across several domains, this role is for you!

• 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

• 2-6+ 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
• Experience 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)
• Strong communication skills and experience working with technical and non-technical teams
• Comfortable working in fast paced environment, self starter and self organizing
• Ability to think strategically, analyze and interpret market and consumer information

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