Software Engineer, Observability

About the position

The Core Infrastructure organization builds and operates reliable, scalable and repeatable cloud infrastructure for DoorDash developers to ship great products quickly and reliably. The Observability team within Core Infrastructure builds and operates systems to provide introspection into the health and performance of all DoorDash systems and services. These observability systems are used by all DoorDash developers!

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute infrastructure projects that improve observability tools and platforms, including: metrics, logging, distributed tracing, dashboarding, alerting, application performance management
• Developing and maintaining systems to enable our engineering colleagues to confidently run their services with high quality, and quickly understand and mitigate any technical issues
• Partnering with our observability vendors to improve their products and align with our roadmap needs
• Working with engineering colleagues to contribute to our observability strategy with a strong emphasis on open source libraries, data formats and query languages

Requirements

• At least 5 years experience as a backend software engineer
• Experience building and operating infrastructure at scale
• Apply a product mindset to infrastructure systems and feel accomplished enabling others
• Strive for design simplicity and consistency above all else
• Solve problems using software to automate or prevent toil
• Love data, and identifying patterns and correlations providing new insights is exciting

Nice-to-haves

• Development using GoLang, Kotlin, and/or Python
• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Service Mesh, Envoy
• Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/PromQL, Grafana, Fluentbit
• Data: Kafka, Clickhouse, SQL, Redis
• Previous experience running a production service from a DevOps or SRE perspective

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with an employer match
• Paid time off
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness benefits
• Paid holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Disability and basic life insurance
• Family-forming assistance
• Commuter benefit match
• Mental health program