Senior Manager, Finance & Strategy, New Verticals - DashMart

The Finance & Strategy team accelerates the growth of our business by identifying and implementing new opportunities and solutions. We partner with teams across the company to improve the profitability, scalability and defensibility of our business model. We're looking for people who can use strategy to identify areas of opportunity, and collaborate to help carry projects from conception through execution.

The Storage teams build and operate online stateful systems and abstractions that are reliable, efficient, secure and easy to use for DoorDash Engineering. The teams are responsible for understanding Product Engineering’s evolving needs and developing platform and infrastructure capabilities to serve them. The team currently supports CockroachDB, Cassandra, Kafka and Redis as well as data abstraction services to reduce the complexity of interacting with storage systems for Product Engineers.

You will serve as the finance lead for our DashMart business, DoorDash’s next billion dollar business. The DashMart team is building a store that is custom built for ecommerce to offer groceries, household essentials and local favorites to our customers with unmatched quality. Expansion into new categories is central to our growth strategy as a company, by creating entirely new use cases for customers and expanding our brand beyond restaurant delivery.  You’ll join as a senior leader on a lean but high horsepower team, and will be responsible for growing and cementing DashMart as one of the next pillars of our marketplace business, while simultaneously developing the team around you.  The person in this role will operate much like the CFO of a smaller start-up, owning a diverse set of finance responsibilities without clear boundaries, and helping to build the foundation of these businesses from the ground up.  

• Provide full financial oversight and leadership for our DashMart business, and directly influence strategy on how we grow and develop this new category on our marketplace while balancing economic constraints
• Collaborate with colleagues and cross-functional partners to develop and own new processes to drive financial clarity, identify opportunities, and measure risks in our business
• Pour over mountains of data in search of meaningful insights, distill them into actionable recommendations, and work with others to convert them into tangible results
• Support planning processes and special projects to improve, scale, and automate forecasting and reporting
• Gain a deeper understanding of how to grow a new business within an established company, and operate one at scale

We’re hiring a Data Solutions Engineer with deep expertise in distributed databases, particularly Apache Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, and database agnostic abstractions. In this role, you will design, optimize, and scale distributed data access layers that power DoorDash’s most critical systems, ensuring high availability, low latency, and fault tolerance.

You’ll serve as a hands-on architect and technical partner to product engineering and infrastructure teams, helping translate complex business requirements into resilient and scalable data models. Your work will directly influence the evolution of Taulu, DoorDash’s unified storage abstraction layer, by shaping best practices and identifying platform gaps through real world engagements.

This is a high-impact, cross functional role that combines deep technical expertise with a customer centric approach. You’ll lead solutioning engagements from design through production, drive the adoption of Taulu modeling best practices, and ensure that our systems meet goals around reliability, cost efficiency, and velocity. You must be located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle or New York for this hybrid opportunity. 

• Design and implement highly scalable, fault tolerant distributed database solutions using Taulu, Apache Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, and other paved path storage solutions. 
• Architect and optimize multi-region, globally distributed systems to meet our high standards for availability, latency, and throughput.
• Lead data modeling, performance tuning, and capacity planning for large-scale, mission-critical storage workloads.
• Partner with product engineering and infrastructure teams to deeply understand domain specific data needs and guide them in adopting paved path storage solutions.
• Serve as the DRI for solutioning engagements, owning modeling in Taulu from experimentation through launch and scale.
• Shape the evolution of Taulu by identifying abstraction gaps and converting customer feedback into platform improvements.
• Apply workload-aware design patterns, including caching strategies, partitioning, and consistency tuning to improve performance and efficiency.
• Drive adoption of operational best practices across observability, schema design, capacity planning, and cost optimization across storage systems.
• Promote clarity and continuity by contributing to solutioning playbooks, decision logs, and architectural documentation.

• Work with GMs and product leaders to size opportunities and make strategic decisions and investments
• Oversee financial reporting and forecasting, and ensure we have a clear and detailed understanding of the drivers of growth, margin expansion and competitive positioning
• Hold cross-functional partners accountable to their financial plan and outcomes, and work with them to get things back on track if they miss
• Mentor and develop new & existing talent to help them achieve their professional goals and scale our team as we continue to grow
• Advise our executive team on ways to invest our resources more efficiently, to move faster and do more
• Build models and develop analytical frameworks to evaluate new partnership opportunities, understand ROI / payback of various initiatives, and forecast demand more accurately, just to name a few
• Ensure we have necessary processes, systems and tools in place to streamline our operations and help us scale as quickly as possible

This is a unique opportunity for a highly motivated leader to exert real influence on the direction of our company, and help build a new business that’s still in its infancy.  We hope you’re as excited about it as we are.  

• Have 9+ years of strategic finance, operational finance, FP&A, or investment banking experience at a high-growth technology startup or well-established company
• Have 3+ years of team management experience. Building and developing a team is something you are passionate about
• Have experience owning budgets for major functional areas within an organization, and working with operators on day-to-day execution to hit targets
• Thrive in high-performance cultures, handle stress well, and aren’t afraid of long hours in pursuit of meaningful work
• Embrace ambiguity.  Rapid change and learning is exciting to you, and you know how to find direction and craft a plan of action even when none is given to you
• Lead by example and indirect influence.  You excel at navigating a rapidly growing organization with many different cross-functional partners, gaining input and building consensus with key stakeholders as you go.  You know how to organize and motivate a broad, diverse and geographically dispersed working team around a shared goal.  
• Are relentless.  Things never quite go according to plan.  You have the determination and grit to keep working on a problem as new challenges emerge, while maintaining the flexibility to adjust plans or strategies as needed.
• Have a proven ability to earn the trust of senior leaders, and influence their thinking on key strategic decisions
  Have experience building and reviewing highly complex models, and developing a team that sets the gold standard for financial modeling.  You know how to distill complex financial data into digestible outputs and analyses, for use across the organization
• Are equally comfortable operating at 10,000 feet and 1 foot.  You don’t hesitate to get in the weeds and work at the lowest level of detail, but you’re just as comfortable thinking long-term and inspiring a team.  No job is beneath you.
• Have a demonstrated interest in logistics, on-demand services, marketplaces and grocery (nice to have)

We expect this position to be filled by 5/27/26.

• You have 10+ years of experience designing and scaling distributed data systems, with deep expertise in NoSQL technologies like Apache Cassandra, DynamoDB, or ScyllaDB.
• You have a strong command of distributed system concepts such as replication, partitioning, tunable consistency, and failure recovery.
• You’ve led data modeling efforts for high-throughput, low-latency workloads and understand the real-world trade-offs involved in NoSQL schema design.
• You are experienced with caching technologies like Redis or Memcached and know how to layer them effectively over storage systems to optimize for performance and cost.
• You have a customer-first mindset, and thrive when working closely with product and platform teams to translate complex requirements into clean, scalable data models.
• You are skilled at communicating complex architecture decisions and building alignment across infrastructure and product engineering organizations.
• You have a track record of mentoring engineers, influencing data architecture at scale, and fostering best practices in reliability, observability, and data access patterns.
• You document decisions, share learnings, and take pride in contributing to reusable playbooks and durable frameworks for others to build upon.
• Bonus: You’ve worked on or contributed to open-source distributed databases.  

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