Staff Software Engineer, Traffic at DoorDash (San Francisco)

DoorDash connects customers with local businesses for delivery, from restaurants to grocery, retail and its own DashMart stores. 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.

Key responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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
• Curious, independent, ambitious, and can find solutions and make progress in an ambiguous and challenging environment
• 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
• You will report to the Engineering Manager of the Traffic Team within the Infrastructure organization. This role is hybrid working from one of our engineering hubs based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle or New York

Salary and benefits

US base salary $193,800 to $285,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.