Storage Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA
Storage Engineer jobs in San Francisco are in strong demand, concentrated in the Financial District, SoMa, and Mission Bay across cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and biotech. Employers hiring right now include Redwood Materials, Affirm, and CRUSOE. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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About the Team
The Storage organization builds and operates the online stateful systems and abstractions that DoorDash Engineering depends on: reliable, efficient, secure, and easy to use. Within Storage, the Distributed Caching team owns every caching offering at DoorDash end to end, including ElastiCache (Redis/Valkey), Boulder (our KVRocks-based key-value store for high-QPS feature serving), Entity Cache (read Bill Shen's engineering blog post, "High-Performance Proxy Cache for DoorDash Services"), and the Distributed Lock Service, plus the smart clients (asgard-redis, valkey-go) that sit in front of them. These systems back critical product surfaces across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo: the team runs roughly 400 ElastiCache clusters serving hundreds of millions of GET requests per second in aggregate, and Boulder, our offline-to-online feature store, serves billions of feature lookups per second at peak.
About the Role
The team owns provisioning of clusters and the smart clients that sit in front of them, baking in sensible defaults so that other engineering teams get a turnkey caching solution instead of having to run their own. You'll help drive Boulder's evolution to scale further, improve cost efficiency, enhance performance, and support real-time updates; re-platform the Distributed Lock Service onto a strongly consistent backend; and build the self-serve tooling and recommendation engine that let customers describe a workload (QPS, TTL, payload size, latency profile) and get the right backend without talking to a human.
You'll go deep on cache invalidation, replication, sharding, compaction, and failover, while shipping the guardrails, automation, and observability that keep this scale operable by a small team.
You must be located in San Francisco, Seattle, or the New York Metro Area for this hybrid position. You will report to the Engineering Manager on the Distributed Caching team within the Storage organization.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Own high-leverage caching and locking services with direct, measurable customer impact: cost, latency, and reliability at multi million QPS scale.
- Build and scale Boulder, our KVRocks backed key-value store, including compaction, sharding, and domain isolation.
- Re-platform the Distributed Lock Service onto a strongly consistent backend with sharding
- Contribute to the standardized smart caching client that bakes in failover, retry, and observability defaults so customers don't have to think about them.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues that span cache invalidation storms, replication lag, hot shards, and noisy-neighbor contention, then turn each one into a durable guardrail rather than a one-off fix.
- Collaborate closely with the teams that build on top of caching, including Taulu, ML Platform, and product engineering across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo.
We're excited about you because…
- You have 6+ years of full-time experience designing, building, and operating distributed, stateful systems in production, at least 2 of which involved caching or key-value storage at meaningful scale.
- You are proficient in Go, or Java/Kotlin with deep expertise in concurrency, distributed systems, and production-grade backend services.
- You have hands-on experience with distributed caching technologies (Redis/Valkey, Memcached, or similar) and understand their failure modes: replication lag, failover, hot keys, and cache invalidation.
- You understand distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, sharding and partitioning, replication, and consensus, and can reason about their trade-offs from first principles.
- You have built or operated systems that require careful capacity planning and cost discipline at scale, and you default to right-sizing over over-provisioning.
- You thrive in an execution-driven environment with a broad ownership area and a proven track record of shipping reliable infrastructure end to end.
- You have proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring, and releasing software.
Preferred
- Hands-on experience with ElastiCache, Memcached, or Valkey in production.
- Experience with KVRocks or RocksDB-family embedded storage engines (TiKV or similar), including compaction tuning and back-pressure handling.
- Experience building or operating a distributed lock service.
- Experience with Kubernetes and general cloud infrastructure operations.
- Contributions to open-source caching, storage, or distributed systems projects.
About DoorDash
At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.
DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees' happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We're committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That's why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on "protected categories," we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.
If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.
Notice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only
We used Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provided Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023. We resumed using Covey Scout for Inbound again on June 29, 2024, and ceased using Covey Scout for Inbound on April 30, 2026.
The Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor. Results of the audit may be viewed here: https://getcovey.com/nyc-local-law-144.
Beware of recruitment scams: DASH Brands will never ask you to pay money or share sensitive financial information during hiring — learn more about DASH Brands' legitimate recruiting process at careersatdoordash.com/recruitment-scam-awareness.
About the Team
The Storage organization builds and operates the online stateful systems and abstractions that DoorDash Engineering depends on: reliable, efficient, secure, and easy to use. Within Storage, the Distributed Caching team owns every caching offering at DoorDash end to end, including ElastiCache (Redis/Valkey), Boulder (our KVRocks-based key-value store for high-QPS feature serving), Entity Cache (read Bill Shen's engineering blog post, "High-Performance Proxy Cache for DoorDash Services"), and the Distributed Lock Service, plus the smart clients (asgard-redis, valkey-go) that sit in front of them. These systems back critical product surfaces across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo: the team runs roughly 400 ElastiCache clusters serving hundreds of millions of GET requests per second in aggregate, and Boulder, our offline-to-online feature store, serves billions of feature lookups per second at peak.
About the Role
The team owns provisioning of clusters and the smart clients that sit in front of them, baking in sensible defaults so that other engineering teams get a turnkey caching solution instead of having to run their own. You'll help drive Boulder's evolution to scale further, improve cost efficiency, enhance performance, and support real-time updates; re-platform the Distributed Lock Service onto a strongly consistent backend; and build the self-serve tooling and recommendation engine that let customers describe a workload (QPS, TTL, payload size, latency profile) and get the right backend without talking to a human.
You'll go deep on cache invalidation, replication, sharding, compaction, and failover, while shipping the guardrails, automation, and observability that keep this scale operable by a small team.
You must be located in San Francisco, Seattle, or the New York Metro Area for this hybrid position. You will report to the Engineering Manager on the Distributed Caching team within the Storage organization.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Own high-leverage caching and locking services with direct, measurable customer impact: cost, latency, and reliability at multi million QPS scale.
- Build and scale Boulder, our KVRocks backed key-value store, including compaction, sharding, and domain isolation.
- Re-platform the Distributed Lock Service onto a strongly consistent backend with sharding
- Contribute to the standardized smart caching client that bakes in failover, retry, and observability defaults so customers don't have to think about them.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues that span cache invalidation storms, replication lag, hot shards, and noisy-neighbor contention, then turn each one into a durable guardrail rather than a one-off fix.
- Collaborate closely with the teams that build on top of caching, including Taulu, ML Platform, and product engineering across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo.
We're excited about you because…
- You have 6+ years of full-time experience designing, building, and operating distributed, stateful systems in production, at least 2 of which involved caching or key-value storage at meaningful scale.
- You are proficient in Go, or Java/Kotlin with deep expertise in concurrency, distributed systems, and production-grade backend services.
- You have hands-on experience with distributed caching technologies (Redis/Valkey, Memcached, or similar) and understand their failure modes: replication lag, failover, hot keys, and cache invalidation.
- You understand distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, sharding and partitioning, replication, and consensus, and can reason about their trade-offs from first principles.
- You have built or operated systems that require careful capacity planning and cost discipline at scale, and you default to right-sizing over over-provisioning.
- You thrive in an execution-driven environment with a broad ownership area and a proven track record of shipping reliable infrastructure end to end.
- You have proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring, and releasing software.
Preferred
- Hands-on experience with ElastiCache, Memcached, or Valkey in production.
- Experience with KVRocks or RocksDB-family embedded storage engines (TiKV or similar), including compaction tuning and back-pressure handling.
- Experience building or operating a distributed lock service.
- Experience with Kubernetes and general cloud infrastructure operations.
- Contributions to open-source caching, storage, or distributed systems projects.
About DoorDash
At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.
DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees' happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We're committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That's why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on "protected categories," we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.
If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.
Notice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only
We used Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provided Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023. We resumed using Covey Scout for Inbound again on June 29, 2024, and ceased using Covey Scout for Inbound on April 30, 2026.
The Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor. Results of the audit may be viewed here: https://getcovey.com/nyc-local-law-144.
Beware of recruitment scams: DASH Brands will never ask you to pay money or share sensitive financial information during hiring — learn more about DASH Brands' legitimate recruiting process at careersatdoordash.com/recruitment-scam-awareness.
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Who's Hiring
- Redwood Materials31
- Affirm5
- CRUSOE5
- Lambda5
- OpenAI5
Top Industries Hiring
- Manufacturing16
- Science & Research5
- Technology & Software5
- Electronics & Hardware5
Storage Engineer Jobs in San Francisco: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a storage engineer job in San Francisco?
Focus your search on San Francisco's cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and biotech sectors, which generate the highest concentration of storage engineer openings in the city. Roles cluster in SoMa, the Financial District, and Mission Bay. Candidates with hands-on experience in NAS, SAN, or object storage platforms and familiarity with cloud-native environments have a clear edge in this market.
Which companies hire storage engineers in San Francisco?
San Francisco storage engineer roles are posted by Redwood Materials, Affirm, and CRUSOE and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. The hiring pool includes large enterprise technology firms, cloud infrastructure companies, and mid-size startups that run significant on-premises and hybrid storage environments across SoMa and the Financial District.
Are there remote storage engineer jobs in San Francisco?
Yes, though storage engineering skews toward on-site work given the hands-on nature of hardware provisioning, data center management, and physical infrastructure. About 48% of storage engineer openings tied to San Francisco are remote or hybrid as of October 2026, primarily for roles focused on cloud storage architecture, capacity planning, or vendor management rather than hands-on data center operations.
How can I get a storage engineer job in San Francisco with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in San Francisco is a junior systems administrator or IT infrastructure support role at one of the city's many mid-size tech companies or managed service providers in SoMa or the Financial District. These positions expose you to storage systems directly and often lead to dedicated storage engineering responsibilities. Certifications from NetApp, Dell EMC, or cloud providers strengthen entry-level applications here.
Which industries hire the most storage engineers in San Francisco?
The sectors hiring the most storage engineers in San Francisco are Manufacturing, Science & Research, and Technology & Software, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. San Francisco's density of cloud-native technology companies and regulated industries like financial services and life sciences drives consistent demand for engineers who can design and maintain large-scale, compliant storage infrastructure.
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