Senior Staff Engineer, Developer Platform at DoorDash

DoorDash is revolutionizing food delivery and local commerce. Join our mission to grow and connect communities!

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain foundational components to enable all DoorDash Engineers to excel at backend engineering.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to drive long-term architectural direction and influence company-wide strategy
• Design & deliver AI-powered solutions which augment the developer experience.
• Champion data-informed decision-making and continuous improvement across the team
• Guide the organization through large degrees of ambiguity, leveraging industry best practices while also knowing when to break the mold
• Communicate with clarity, whether explaining a trade-off to execs or mapping technical strategy across teams
• Demonstrate customer obsession by regularly engaging with and surveying engineers to understand their use cases and pain points.
• Mentor engineers in their career as well as help define our engineering culture and best practices

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software development, and expert proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Go
• 5+ years designing and operating distributed systems and platform components at scale
• Proven expertise in CI/CD orchestration, build systems, frameworks, or platform development
• A strong bias for action, pragmatic problem-solving, and deep technical expertise
• A deep understanding of how to build quality software and know how to balance this with delivering value to your customers.
• Proven success leading cross-functional initiatives with measurable impact
• Must be comfortable regularly exercising discretion and independent judgment in performing job duties, including evaluating options, making informed decisions, and determining appropriate courses of action within the scope of assigned responsibilities.

Key Skills

• hands-on software development
• expert proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Go
• designing and operating distributed systems
• platform components at scale
• CI/CD orchestration
• build systems
• frameworks
• platform development
• pragmatic problem-solving
• deep technical expertise

DoorDash Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• wellness benefits
• commuter benefits match
• paid time off
• paid sick leave
• medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• disability and basic life insurance
• family-forming assistance

Salary Range

$2,31,200 - $3,40,000 USD annually

Job Summary

About the Team

The Developer Platform organization at DoorDash builds the tools, services and frameworks that empower our engineers to build, ship, and launch new products. We drive eng-wide excellence across our three engineering pillars: Quality, Velocity, and Efficiency.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to serve as the technical leader for our Backend Developer Experience group. This group spans monorepo management, IDE tools, build and test systems, CI, frameworks/SDKs, and core platform services. In this hands-on role, you will define the technical vision and drive execution across a wide range of developer productivity products, impacting every engineering team at DoorDash. You’ll partner closely with engineers, leaders, and cross-f...

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