Software Engineer, Traffic

DoorDash Traffic Team Engineer

Help us build the world's most reliable, on-demand logistics engine for last-mile delivery! We're bringing on experienced engineers to help us create and maintain a 24x7, no downtime, global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash's three-sided marketplace. As a member of the Traffic team, you will 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.

You will report to the Engineering Manager on the Traffic Team within the Core Infrastructure organization. You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Work with a world-class team of engineers building the foundation of DoorDash's internal and external traffic systems.
• 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.
• Work in a 100% cloud environment (AWS, GCP) using technologies such as Envoy, Argo CD, Prometheus, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

We're excited about you because…

• You have 2-5 years of experience as a software engineer in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering.
• You have hands-on experience with service mesh or networking systems such as Envoy, Istio, Linkerd, or NGINX.
• You are comfortable operating distributed systems and debugging complex traffic or reliability issues.
• You have strong development skills in Go, Python, or similar languages.
• You understand containerized environments and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.).
• Bonus points if you have experience designing and running high-traffic, production-grade service communication systems.
• Bonus points if you have strong knowledge of HTTP, TCP/IP, TLS, load balancing, and DNS.
• Bonus points if you have experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Bonus points if you are passionate about reliability, simplicity, and developer experience.
• Bonus points if you have contributed to the CNCF or Envoy communities.

Compensation: The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee's work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future. In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others. To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page.

About DoorDash: At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods. DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees' happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: We're committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That's why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.