Software Engineer, Backend - Presentation Gateway

DoorDash USA•Los Angeles, NY

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.

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
flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year
vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week)