Software Engineer, Reliability Platform

DoorDash, Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CASunnyvale, CASeattle, WANew York, NY
Salary
$130,600–$192,000 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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About DoorDash, Inc

DoorDash, Inc. is an American company operating online food ordering and food delivery. It trades under the symbol DASH. With a 56% market share, DoorDash is the largest food delivery platform in the United States.

DoorDash, Inc currently has 97 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $163,800–$240,900 across 96 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Reliability Platform

As a Software Engineer on the Reliability Platform team, you will design, build, and operate software and infrastructure to help engineering groups manage service reliability. You will work on mission-critical back-end services, complex orchestration workflows, self-service platform capabilities, and agentic intelligence. Your daily work involves building frameworks to measure SLO compliance across thousands of endpoints, developing an internal SRE Agent to replace legacy runbooks, and creating tools for incident management and root-cause analysis. You will utilize Go, AWS primitives, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Pulumi. The role focuses on solving the technical challenge of operationalizing reliability data and insights to create proactive, self-healing systems through automation and agentic AI workflows, ensuring high-quality production outcomes across the global engineering organization.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate mission-critical back-end services and complex orchestration workflows.
  • Develop a framework to measure SLO compliance and quality across tens of thousands of endpoints.
  • Build an internal SRE Agent to support domain-specific knowledge bases and replace legacy runbooks.
  • Set up MCP for agentic use of reliability data and tools across core infrastructure teams.
  • Automate manual toil and develop agentic AI workflows to propose and execute production changes.
  • Unify incident management processes and tooling globally across all DoorDash-owned brands.
  • Maintain scalable and performant systems using Go, AWS, and Infrastructure as Code tools.

What we're looking for

  • You must have 2+ years of experience in an infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering role.
  • You must be fluent in Go or a similar language to design and deliver scalable, resilient, and performant services.
  • You must have experience with AWS primitives, security best practices, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
  • You must possess a platform engineering mindset, focusing on APIs, abstractions, and workflows.
  • You must understand SRE concepts such as SLOs, error budgets, and incident response.
  • You must be able to embrace and use AI tools for coding, planning, and supporting peers.

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