Middle Software Engineer

Position:
Software Engineer, Performance Platform

Company:
DoorDash, Inc.

Compensation:
$119,100—$175,100 USD

Location:
USA (San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY)

Employment type:
Not specified

Work Arrangement:
Not specified

Short Summary:
As a Software Engineer on the Performance Platform team, you will help build foundational pieces that will impact the performance characteristics of systems across DoorDash, including developer tools, frameworks, and libraries.

Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain foundational components to enable DoorDash Engineers to confidently measure and tune performance of their services/components.
- Take on significant technical challenges and have a large impact.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, external partners, and peer engineering leaders.
- Be a culture carrier for the Performance Platform team through mentorship, education, and engagement of your peers.

Requirement:
- 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer working on backend platform/infrastructure teams.
- Proficiency in at least one OOP language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, C++/C#).
- Experience building and maintaining platform components at scale.
- Apply a product mindset to platform problems.
- Strive for design simplicity and consistency.
- Solve problems using software to automate or prevent toil.

Benefits:
- Comprehensive benefits package including a 401(k) plan with employer match, paid time off, paid parental leave, wellness benefits, and several paid holidays.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, commuter benefit match, and a mental health program.