doordashusa

Software Engineer, Backend Developer Experience

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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

DockerExcelKotlinKubernetesPython

Domain Knowledge

  • Cloud
  • Engineering
  • Healthcare
  • Insurance
  • Logistics
  • Medical
  • Regulatory

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance

at’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which

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.