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DoorDash USA

Senior Software Engineer, Performance Platform

DoorDash USA, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94087


About the TeamOur mission is to make performance an integral part of DoorDash’s software development lifecycle and empower developers to push the limits of the systems they design and develop.

We are responsible for providing tools and capabilities to preemptively identify and address performance, scalability and efficiency limitations, starting at the granular level and bubbling to the E2E ecosystem, leading to smooth/performant experience for all audiences of DoorDash.

About the RoleAs a Senior Software Engineer on the Performance Platform team, you will build foundational pieces that will impact the performance characteristics of systems across DoorDash. These include developer tools, frameworks and libraries. You will work closely with engineers, technical product managers, and engineering managers across all parts of the engineering organization to deliver large and impactful initiatives. Additionally, you will be a culture carrier for the Performance Platform team through mentorship, education, and engagement of your peers.

You will report into the Engineering Manager on our Performance Platform team in our Developer Platform organization.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

Develop and maintain foundational components to enable DoorDash Engineers to confidently measure and tune performance of their services/components.

Take on significant technical challenges and have a large impact.

Drive collaboration with stakeholders, external partners and peer engineering leaders.

Mentor junior team members, and lead cross functional pods to create collective impact.

Join a growing company and grow right along with us.

We’re excited about you because…

5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer working on backend platform/infrastructure teams.

Proficiency in at least one OOP language (eg. Java, Kotlin, Go, C++/C# etc).

Experience building and maintaining platform components at scale.

You apply a product mindset to platform problems and feel accomplished enabling others.

You strive for design simplicity and consistency above all else.

You solve problems using software to automate or prevent toil.

CompensationThe location-specific base salary range for this position is listed below. Compensation in other geographies may vary.

Actual compensation within the pay range will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, base salary is localized according to employee work location. Please discuss your intended work location with your recruiter for more information.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being, and that’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package, for full-time employees, that includes healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan including an employer match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid time off, paid parental leave, and several paid holidays, among others.

In addition to base salary, the compensation package for this role also includes opportunities for equity grants.

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