Staff Software Engineer, Backend

DoorDash is building the world's most reliable on-demand, logistics engine for delivery! We're looking for experienced engineers to join our fast-growing engineering team to help us develop a 24x7, global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash’s three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers.

Product engineers work at the intersection of product and infrastructure to solve key business problems with elegant technical solutions. You'll operate our backend services and architecture that support all product functionality and will be challenged to consider the big picture -- collaborating cross-functionally, as well as evaluating and executing on trade-offs to maximize business impact for the company.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will...

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 our backend systems

Be involved in transitioning our monolithic codebase to a microservice-based architecture

Completely disrupt logistics by tackling bleeding-edge, technical problems

We're excited about you because you have...

B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent

8+ years of industry experience

Prior experience working with backend tech stacks

Ability to analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources

Experience