Technical Sourcer, Engineering

Summary

DoorDash is a technology and logistics company that empowers local economies through delivery and other services. The Technical Sourcer will build and execute sourcing strategies for senior and staff-level software engineering and infrastructure roles, owning market mapping, competitive intelligence, outreach, hiring-manager consultation, and candidate engagement.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with Technical Recruiters and Engineering Hiring Managers to build and execute sourcing strategies for engineering roles across all levels
• Own market mapping and competitive intelligence to identify where the best technical talent lives and how to reach it
• Drive outreach and initial candidate engagement for a portfolio of concurrent, hard-to-fill technical reqs
• Consult with hiring managers on role scoping, leveling, and sourcing strategy
• Present sourcing strategy and market insights to cross-functional recruiting and engineering partners
• Calibrate candidate profiles with recruiters and hiring managers using funnel data — submittals, conversion, and time-to-fill
• Deliver an exceptional, high-touch candidate experience from first outreach through handoff to the interview process
• Contribute to sourcing process improvements, tooling, and market-intel sharing across the Technical Sourcing team

Skills

• You have 3+ years of technical sourcing/recruiting experience, ideally sourcing for senior/staff+ software engineering or infrastructure roles
• You have expert-level boolean/x-ray search skills, and fluency with sourcing tools (LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, GitHub, etc.), plus strong market-mapping and competitive-intelligence ability
• You have a proven track record of consulting with hiring managers on role scoping, leveling, and sourcing strategy
• You have excellent written outreach and candidate engagement skills, with a track record of delivering a great candidate experience
• You are self-motivated and intellectually curious, and comfortable owning a portfolio of concurrent reqs with a high degree of autonomy
• You are comfortable leveraging AI tools and emerging sourcing techniques from AI-assisted search and market research to LLM-based outreach drafting to source faster and more effectively

Qualifications

Must Haves

• You have 3+ years of technical sourcing/recruiting experience, ideally sourcing for senior/staff+ software engineering or infrastructure roles
• You have expert-level boolean/x-ray search skills, and fluency with sourcing tools (LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, GitHub, etc.), plus strong market-mapping and competitive-intelligence ability
• You have a proven track record of consulting with hiring managers on role scoping, leveling, and sourcing strategy
• You have excellent written outreach and candidate engagement skills, with a track record of delivering a great candidate experience
• You are self-motivated and intellectually curious, and comfortable owning a portfolio of concurrent reqs with a high degree of autonomy
• You are comfortable leveraging AI tools and emerging sourcing techniques from AI-assisted search and market research to LLM-based outreach drafting to source faster and more effectively

Benefits

• Opportunities for equity grants
• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Wellness benefits
• Commuter benefits match
• Paid time off
• Paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• Disability and basic life insurance
• Family-forming assistance
• Mental health program
• 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
• For hourly roles: paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked
• Premium healthcare
• Wellness expense reimbursement
• Remote role in a US central or east coast time zone