30 days ago
Base Salary
$131k - $285k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build large-scale, high-RPS, latency-sensitive distributed systems.
- Develop and maintain traffic infrastructure, including Envoy data planes, xDS control planes, proxyless architecture, and ingress systems.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production issues while maintaining SLAs.
- Collaborate with platform and product engineers on feature requests and technical problems.
- Improve team productivity and operational capabilities through automation and AI tools.
- Participate in shared on-call and support rotations and lead production investigations and incidents.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering.
- Experience with Go, C++, Python, or Rust.
- Experience with AWS and Kubernetes.
- Background debugging high-QPS or latency-sensitive systems.
- Proficiency using AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor across the software development lifecycle.
- Bonus experience with Envoy, Istio, or Linkerd.
- Familiarity with xDS and control plane architectures.
- Understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, and load balancing.
- Experience building RPC frameworks or client-side networking libraries.
- Experience with AWS networking primitives such as load balancers and Privatelink.
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Experience with ArgoCD, Helm, or Atlantis and GitOps delivery tooling.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement from engineering hubs in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, or New York.
- 401(k) plan with employer matching.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Wellness benefits and commuter benefits match.
- Paid time off and paid sick leave.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 11 paid holidays.
- Disability and basic life insurance.
- Family-forming assistance and mental health program.
- Equity grants are available in addition to base salary.
About DoorDash
DoorDash builds a marketplace and logistics platform that connects consumers with local restaurants and retailers for on-demand delivery and pickup, powered by a network of independent Dashers. It earns through delivery fees, merchant commissions, advertising, DashPass subscriptions, and white-label fulfillment via DoorDash Drive. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the public company operates across the U.S. and selected international markets, and also researches automation through DoorDash Labs.