Backend Engineer, Drone - DoorDash Labs

DoorDash Labs sucht einen Backend Engineer für das Drone Delivery Team, um die Logistik der letzten Meile durch autonome Drohnenlieferungen zu revolutionieren. In dieser Rolle entwirfst und implementierst du Backend-Dienste für die Drohnenflotte, einschließlich intelligenter Routenplanung, Echtzeit-Flottenmanagement und dynamischem Luftraum-Bewusstsein. Du entwickelst robuste, skalierbare und fehlertolerante Systeme, die den sicheren und effizienten Betrieb der Lieferdrohnen gewährleisten. Zudem implementierst du Simulationen und Testframeworks, um die Leistung und Zuverlässigkeit der Algorithmen zu validieren, und führst Tools und Best Practices ein, um die Entwicklung zu beschleunigen und die Einhaltung der Luftfahrtvorschriften sicherzustellen.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services for autonomous drone delivery that integrates with core DoorDash data, focusing on intelligent path planning, real-time fleet management, and dynamic airspace awareness.
• Develop and maintain robust, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems to manage a fleet of delivery drones, ensuring safe and efficient operations.
• Implement simulations and testing frameworks to validate the performance and reliability of path planning algorithms.
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability, and security for our drone backend systems, with a particular emphasis on ensuring safe and compliant drone operations.
• Introduce tools and best practices to accelerate our drone development process and ensure adherence to aviation regulations.

Requirements

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, with a focus on backend systems, robotics, or autonomous systems.
• Strong experience in developing and implementing algorithms for path planning.
• Experience with simulations and testing frameworks for robotics or autonomous systems.
• Experience with either Kotlin, or C++.
• Ability to improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of distributed systems, especially in a real-time operational context.
• Experience with service-oriented architecture, writing REST APIs, unit testing, and architectural design.
• Understanding of networking and communication protocols relevant to robotics and IoT (e.g., TCP/IP, UDP, MQTT).
• Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Kotlin
• gRPC, Kafka, Redis, Postgres, or Cassandra
• AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience with ROS (Robot Operating System) or other robotics middleware
• Familiarity with geospatial data and mapping technologies (GIS)

Benefits

• DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.
• For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
• For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).