DoorDash Staff Software Engineer on DoorDash's Traffic team building large-scale distributed systems for traffic infrastructure. Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining latency-sensitive systems.
Responsibilities
We are looking for experienced engineers to join the Traffic team and help build the next generation of DoorDash’s Traffic platform. Our team develops and operates the critical traffic infrastructure that powers communication between thousands of services across multiple regions, as well as the ingress systems that handle external traffic entering the DoorDash platform.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will...
Design and build large-scale distributed systems that are high RPS and latency sensitive
Troubleshoot, debug, and fix issues that affect production and maintain our SLAs
Work collaboratively with other platform and product engineers to deliver on feature requests and solve their problems
Find ways to improve the team’s productivity and operational capabilities through the use of automation, AI tools, and other avenues
Participate in a shared on-call and support rotation and lead production investigations and incidents
We’re excited about you because...
You have 8+ years of experience as a software engineer in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering.
Experience with Programming Languages like Go, C++, Python or Rust
Experience with AWS and Kubernetes
Background working on and debugging high-QPS or latency-sensitive systems
Qualification
Experience with AWS and Kubernetes
Required
8+ years of experience as a software engineer in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering
Experience with programming languages like Go, C++, Python or Rust
Experience with AWS and Kubernetes
Background working on and debugging high-QPS or latency-sensitive systems
Proficiency in using AI coding tools in the full software development lifecycle
Preferred
Experience with service mesh technologies such as Envoy, Istio or Linkerd
Familiarity with xDS or control plane architectures
Solid understanding of networking fundamentals like TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, Load Balancing
Experience building RPC frameworks or client-side networking libraries
Experience with AWS Networking Primitives like Load Balancers, Privatelink, etc.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling like Terraform
Experience with Gitops delivery tooling such as ArgoCD, Helm, Atlantis.
