Staff Software Engineer, Traffic

San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY. Posted 15 days ago

The role

You will design, build, and maintain large-scale distributed systems and traffic infrastructure. This includes working on the Envoy Data Plane, xDS control planes, and proxyless architecture.

What you will do

Design and build large-scale distributed systems that are high RPS and latency sensitive
Troubleshoot, debug, and fix issues that affect production and maintain SLAs
Work collaboratively with other platform and product engineers
Improve team productivity and operational capabilities through automation and AI tools
Participate in a shared on-call and support rotation
Lead production investigations and incidents

Required qualifications

8+ years of experience as a software engineer in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering
Experience with Programming Languages like Go, C++, Python or Rust
Experience with AWS and Kubernetes
Background working on and debugging high-QPS or latency-sensitive systems
Proficiency in using AI coding tools in the full software development lifecycle

Nice to have

Experience with service mesh technologies such as Envoy, Istio or Linkerd
Familiarity with xDS or control plane architectures
Solid understanding of networking fundamentals like TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, Load Balancing
Experience building RPC frameworks or client-side networking libraries
Experience with AWS Networking Primitives like Load Balancers, Privatelink, etc.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling like Terraform
Experience with Gitops delivery tooling such as ArgoCD, Helm, Atlantis

Benefits

401(k) plan with employer matching
16 weeks of paid parental leave
Wellness benefits
Commuter benefits match
Paid time off
Paid sick leave
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
11 paid holidays
Disability and basic life insurance
Family-forming assistance
Mental health program

About the company

DoorDash is a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery. Its mission is to empower local economies.