Software Engineer, Backend - Unified Gateway

Design and build robust, scalable systems with engineering excellence and long-term maintainability in mind.

Improve performance, reliability, scalability, and security across the gateway and its request-processing pipeline.

Drive best practices in API management, service discovery, load balancing, and fault tolerance.

Champion adoption of the Unified Gateway platform across product teams.

Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in our high-throughput production environment.

Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance the platform's capabilities.

Leverage the latest AI-assisted development tools and best practices.

You have 2+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.

You have experience with gRPC, REST APIs, Protocol Buffers, and service-to-service communication patterns.

You have deep knowledge of best practices in Kotlin (or another JVM language) for building high-scale, resilient systems; familiarity with asynchronous/reactive frameworks such as Vert.x is a plus.

You have experience working on high-throughput, mission-critical production systems.

You have a strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consistency, fault tolerance, load balancing, and resilience patterns.

You are comfortable with API gateway and proxy concerns — authentication and authorization, request routing, and schema/contract management (e.g., OpenAPI).

You value solving problems at the platform level, building abstractions that make life easier for hundreds of engineers.

You have proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software

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 by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order 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.

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.

If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.