doordashusa
Software Engineer, Backend Developer Experience
At a Glance
- Location
- San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Posted
- 2026-03-16T14:32:34-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Cloud
- Engineering
- Healthcare
- Insurance
- Logistics
- Medical
- Regulatory
Benefits & Perks
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Requirements
You have
2+ years of experience
in backend, infrastructure, or developer experience engineering.
You’re proficient in
Go, Python, Kotlin
, or other modern backend languages.
Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer on the
Backend Developer Experience
team, you will shape how engineers build, test, and ship code at DoorDash. You’ll design and develop the core systems and tooling that backend engineers rely on every day, from Bazel language rules and monorepo libraries/workflows, to high-fidelity DevContainer environments, to agentic, productivity-enhancing AI workflows.
Your work will directly improve
build and test performance
,
Team
The
Backend Developer Experience (DevEx)
team builds the core systems, tools, and environments that empower engineers to develop, test, and ship high-quality services quickly and confidently. We own and evolve the developer experience for DoorDash’s backend monorepos, maintain the Bazel-based build ecosystem, provide the paved-path DevContainers-based development platform for engineers & agentic workflows, and develop IDE and tooling. Our mission is to remove friction, improve iteration speed, and ensure a consistent, reliable developer experience across every stage of DoorDash’s software development lifecycle.