Software Engineer, Backend - Presentation Gateway

DoorDash USA • Los Angeles, CA

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About The Position

As a member of the Presentation Gateway team, you’ll be entrusted with building and maintaining an innovative new API Gateway Platform. This platform empowers product engineers to efficiently implement, test, deploy, and maintain the presentation logic for DoorDash client applications, including DoorDash and DoorDash Driver apps and spanning across iOS, Android, Web and other platforms. By providing this robust platform, we eliminate the need for product teams to manage their own services, leading to significant improvements in:
Velocity: Product engineers can iterate faster and deliver features more quickly.
Scalability: The framework is designed to handle increasing demands and traffic seamlessly.
Reliability: Safe programming model, centralized management and standardized practices enhance system stability and reduce errors.
Cost Efficiency: Consolidating resources and streamlining processes optimizes operational costs across DoorDash.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
Design and build robust, scalable systems with engineering excellence and long-term maintainability in mind.
Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for our backend systems.
Work and collaborate across team boundaries.
Drive best practices in API management, service discovery, load balancing, and fault tolerance.
Champion adoption of the Presentation Gateway platform across various product teams.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in our production environment.
Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance the platform's capabilities.
Leverage the latest AI tools development best practices.

Requirements

• You have 2+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• You have experience with gRPC, REST APIs, and service communication patterns.
• You have deep knowledge of best practices in Kotlin and/or Go for building high-scale, resilient systems.
• You have experience working on high-throughput, mission-critical production systems.
• You have a strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consistency, fault tolerance, and load balancing.
• You value solving problems at the platform level, building abstractions that make life easier for hundreds of engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust, scalable systems with engineering excellence and long-term maintainability in mind.
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for our backend systems.
• Work and collaborate across team boundaries.
• Drive best practices in API management, service discovery, load balancing, and fault tolerance.
• Champion adoption of the Presentation Gateway platform across various product teams.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in our production environment.
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance the platform's capabilities.
• Leverage the latest AI tools development best practices.

Benefits

• a 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• wellness benefits
• commuter benefits match
• paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)
• medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• disability and basic life insurance
• family-forming assistance
• a mental health program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed