Staff Software Engineer

About the Company

DoorDash is a technology and logistics company on a mission to empower local economies. We are building the world's most reliable on-demand logistics engine to power a three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers.

Responsibilities

• Develop, release and run large-scale web applications
• Develop and define the backend architecture and tech stack for a product area
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for backend systems
• Transition monolithic codebase to a microservice-based architecture
• Tackle complex technical problems to disrupt logistics

Requirements

• B.S., M.S., or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8+ years of industry experience
• Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor)
• Prior experience with backend tech stacks
• Experience with service oriented architecture and writing REST APIs
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Spark, S3)
• Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (HTTP, REST)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building large scale, real-time applications
• Experience with Java/Kotlin
• Contributor to open source projects