Software Engineer, Code Quality at DoorDash (San Francisco)

DoorDash connects customers with local businesses for delivery, from restaurants to grocery, retail and its own DashMart stores. The Code Quality team sits within the Developer Platform organization and owns the systems that keep DoorDash's codebase healthy and secure as it scales: static analysis, quality gates, test frameworks, regression infrastructure, and tooling. Our job is to make sure the signals engineers rely on before shipping — test results, coverage, performance feedback etc — are fast and t

Key responsibilities

• Static analysis, quality gates, coverage reporting, test frameworks, regression infrastructure —
• Define and derive quality signals - flakiness, pass rate, coverage, performance, scale readiness etc -
• Build tooling that improves everyday engineering workflows, including local development, CI/CD, debugging, and rollouts
• Explore how AI agents and tools can automate parts of building quality checks, and use real engineering usage data to measure their impact
• Partner directly with engineering, product, and QA teams across DoorDash to find their biggest bottlenecks

Requirements

• Have experience building software quality infrastructure, test automation, meaningful ownership of build systems, CI/CD infrastructure
• A strong debugging track record and have shipped changes that measurably improved an engineering team's workflow
• Communicate clearly and partner effectively across functions — with engineers, product managers, and QA — to understand and solve real problems
• Comfortable working through ambiguous, cross-team problems and taking them to a solution with minimal guidance
• Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing

Location and schedule

• Onsite in San Francisco, California

Salary and benefits

US base salary $159,800 to $235,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.