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Data General Building a Source of Truth for an Inventory with Disparate Data Sources

Learn how DoorDash crowdsources data from a variety of sources to help predict realtime inventory for our new connivence and grocery product

Anubhav Kushwaha

9 Minute Read

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Four Challenges When Launching a Product Partnership

From a product engineering perspective, external partnerships can be tricky. Here are four best practices to follow.

Manori Thakur 7 Minute Read

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Scaling DoorDash’s Geospatial Innovation with a Location-Based Delivery Simulator

Learn how we built a discrete event simulator for location data tests

Janice Lee 9 Minute Read

Backend General

Scaling Splunk Securely by Building a Custom Terraform Provider

Ensure your growing team can search, analyze, and visualize data securely by integrating Splunk with a custom built Terraform provider.

Esha Mallya 9 Minute Read

Culture General

How DoorDash is Scaling its Merchant Engineering Teams to Meet New Challenges

Learn how the DoorDash merchant team has scaled up to support merchants during the Covid-19 crisis

Varsha Dudani

Yvette Martinez 9 Minute Read

Culture General

Interview with Rajat Shroff – VP of Product at DoorDash

Learn more about the product design team at DoorDash

Helena Seo 7 Minute Read

Culture General

Design Leadership Interview with Tae Kim

Learn more about what it means to be a product designer at DoorDash

Will DiMondi 12 Minute Read

Culture General

Product Leadership Interview with Kevin Fu

Learn about the DoorDash product organization: their mission goals and culture

Taleen Shekerijan 7 Minute Read

Culture General

Design Leadership Interview with Radhika Bhalla

Learn what its like to be a UX researcher at DoorDash from our head of UX, Radhika Bhalla

Helena Seo 9 Minute Read

Culture General

Becoming a Leader as a First-Generation Immigrant

Although we’re living in an era in which many companies advocate for diversity and inclusion, I am often still the only female director in the room in the tech industry. Even more often, I find myself to be the only first-generation immigrant who learned English as a second language. This is interesting given almost 27% of the ...

Helena Seo 7 Minute Read

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“Designing” a Career Ladder for Product Design

Learn more about the design team at DoorDash

Helena Seo 8 Minute Read

Backend General

Enforce Timeout: A DoorDash Reliability Methodology

“What would happen if we removed statement timeouts in our Postgresql databases?” That’s one of the questions asked in a management meeting. At the time I only responded that it would be bad — it would cause problems and make it harder to debug. However, I realize now that this is a topic that many people don’t ...

Zhaobang Liu 5 Minute Read

Backend General

Integrating GitHub with Jenkins for Continuous Integration and Deployment

When an engineer at DoorDash opens a GitHub pull request, our goal is to quickly and automatically provide information about code health. GitHub’s status API compliments GitHub webhooks, which allow you to trigger custom routines as events fire in your GitHub account. When developers push to our largest repo, they see something like this at the bottom of ...

Jonathan Block 10 Minute Read