Software Engineer, Reliability Platforms

DoorDash, Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: San Francisco, CASunnyvale, CANew York, NY
Salary: $159,800–$235,000 / yr
Posted: 3 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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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.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Reliability Platforms

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As a Software Engineer on the Reliability Platform team at DoorDash, you will design and build services that ensure high-quality service health, facilitate safe change orchestration, and improve incident management for over 4,000 internal customers. You’ll work with AI tools to develop innovative solutions like SLO frameworks, automated alert routing, and self-service provisioning workflows, while also contributing to the broader infrastructure by leveraging Go, AWS primitives, Terraform, and other cloud technologies. This role demands a platform engineering mindset, experience in backend development, and a commitment to automation and agentic operations, all within DoorDash’s culture of ownership and innovation.

Skills

Go AWS Terraform Pulumi Kubernetes Docker CI/CD SLOs Prometheus Grafana MCP AI Agentic Workflows Feature Flags Infrastructure as Code

What you'll do

Design and build mission-critical back-end services for reliability platforms.
Develop tools to facilitate safe change orchestration in production environments.
Implement AI-driven agentic workflows for proactive incident management.
Ensure high-quality service level objectives (SLOs) across DoorDash’s infrastructure.
Automate complex orchestration workflows using Infrastructure as Code practices.
Enable real-time configuration and feature flag management at scale.

What we're looking for

5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering.
Proven ability to design and deliver scalable, resilient, performant mission-critical services.
Expertise in AWS primitives, security best practices, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code tools.
Understanding of SRE concepts like SLOs, error budgets, and incident response.
Fluency in Go or a similar language for backend development.
Experience with AI tools to enhance productivity and capability in engineering tasks.