DoorDash · 2 months ago
Senior Software Engineer, Traffic
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$131K/yr - $285K/yr
5+ years expDoorDash is a technology and logistics company focused on empowering local economies. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Traffic team, you will design and operate the networking and service mesh platform that supports DoorDash's global infrastructure, ensuring reliable communication across services.
AppsDeliveryE-Commerce PlatformsFood DeliveryOnline Portals
Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate the networking and service mesh platform that enables reliable, secure, and efficient service-to-service communication across DoorDash’s global infrastructure
Operate and evolve DoorDash’s service mesh, built on Envoy and modern cloud-native technologies
Design and implement systems that improve reliability, observability, latency, and security for all service-to-service communication
Develop automation and tooling to manage configurations, policy rollout, and traffic routing at scale
Collaborate with Compute, Cloud Infra, and Product teams to ensure consistent networking abstractions and developer experience
Drive best practices in API management, service discovery, load balancing, and fault tolerance
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience as a software engineer in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering
Hands-on experience with service mesh or networking systems such as Envoy, Istio, Linkerd, or NGINX
Comfortable operating distributed systems and debugging complex traffic or reliability issues
Strong development skills in Go, Python, or similar languages
Understanding of containerized environments and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.)
Preferred
Experience designing and running high-traffic, production-grade service communication systems
Strong knowledge of HTTP, TCP/IP, TLS, load balancing, and DNS
Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
Passionate about reliability, simplicity, and developer experience
Contributed to the CNCF or Envoy communities
Benefits
401(k) plan with employer matching
16 weeks of paid parental leave
Wellness benefits
Commuter benefits match
Paid time off
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
Mental health program
Company
DoorDash
DoorDash is a food delivery platform that connects customers with local and national businesses. It is a sub-organization of DoorDash.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.22BKey Investors
Durable Capital PartnersT. Rowe PriceDarsana Capital Partners
2025-05-27Post Ipo Debt· $2.75B
2020-12-09IPO
2020-06-11Series H· $400M
Leadership Team
Tony Xu
CEO and Co-founder
Stanley Tang
Co-Founder / Chief Product Officer
Recent News
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