Software Engineer, Build and Backend DevEx
DoorDash
About the Team
The Build & Backend Developer Experience (DevEx) team drives improvements in build infrastructure and tooling to accelerate development and reduce friction for engineers across DoorDash. We support and scale the core systems behind developer productivity at DoorDash from Kotlin and Go development workflows to Bazel based builds and Build infrastructure.
About the Role
As a Software Engineer on the Build & Backend DevEx team, you will help shape the developer experience at DoorDash by improving build performance, enhancing CI tooling, and contributing to core libraries and development platforms in Kotlin and Go. Your work will ensure that engineers across the company can iterate quickly and ship high quality code with confidence. You will report into the Build & DevEx team in our Developer Platform organization.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Contribute to the core Build infrastructure and Developer Experience that powers CI/CD across DoorDash.
- Improve developer workflows in the monorepo through better tooling, automation, and standardization.
- Build solutions in Kotlin, Go and Python that enhance developer productivity and maintainability.
- Be at the forefront of developing new technologies and have the opportunity to leverage and contribute to open source tech.
- Contribute to cross functional projects by designing large scale systems with engineering excellence, long-term maintainability, and risk in mind.
- Work with a team of highly talented and motivated teammates.
- Join a growing company and grow right along with us.
We’re excited about you because…
- You have 3+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience.
- You’re proficient in languages such as Kotlin, Go, Java, or Python, and have experience building internal tools, developer frameworks, or backend services.
- You’ve worked with CI/CD systems, build tools (e.g., Bazel, Gradle), or infrastructure at scale.
- You've contributed to tooling that improves the developer experience.
- You’re excited to build new tools and systems that simplify workflows, eliminate toil, and increase development velocity across the company.
Nice to have
- Experience working in a monorepo and building developer tooling.
- Familiarity with MergeQueue systems, remote build execution, or caching strategies.
- Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud infrastructure.
Why Join Us?
- Work on high-impact, large-scale developer infrastructure.
- Be part of a team that influences developer experience company wide.
- Opportunity to innovate and drive best practices in CI/CD and build systems.
- Competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for career growth.
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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. Talk to your recruiter for more information.
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 here.
See below for paid time off details:
- For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
- For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).
The national base pay ranges for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.
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.
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