Software Engineer, Performance Platform

About the position

As a Software Engineer on the Performance Platform team, you will help build foundational pieces that will impact the performance characteristics of systems across DoorDash. These include developer tools, frameworks and libraries. You will work closely with engineers, technical product managers, and engineering managers across all parts of the engineering organization to deliver large and impactful initiatives. Additionally, you will be a culture carrier for the Performance Platform team through mentorship, education, and engagement of your peers.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain foundational components to enable DoorDash Engineers to confidently measure and tune performance of their services/components.
• Take on significant technical challenges and have a large impact.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, external partners and peer engineering leaders.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer working on backend platform/infrastructure teams.
• Proficiency in at least one OOP language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, C++/C#).
• Experience building and maintaining platform components at scale.
• You apply a product mindset to platform problems and feel accomplished enabling others.
• You strive for design simplicity and consistency above all else.
• You solve problems using software to automate or prevent toil.

Benefits

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