Staff Software Engineer

DoorDash; São Paulo; On-site; BRL 400,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking experienced software engineers to join our São Paulo team and help run a 24x7 global infrastructure powering our three-sided marketplace. You’ll operate backend services, optimize performance and security, and contribute to moving from a monolith to microservices.

Strong backend experience and advanced CS credentials are required. Ideal candidates will have 8+ years of industry experience, expertise across SQL/NoSQL, REST, and modern web stacks, and comfort working in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 8+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
• Experience with backend stacks and service oriented architecture.
• Proficiency with REST APIs, HTTP, and web architectures.
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases and related tech.

Responsibilities

• Develop, release and run large-scale web applications.
• Define backend architecture and tech stack for product areas.
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security.
• Transition monolithic codebases to microservice-based architecture.
• Tackle bleeding-edge, technical problems in logistics.

Skills

Backend development

REST APIs

Distributed systems

SQL NoSQL

HTTP REST

Performance/scale

Education

B.S., M.S., or PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Postgres

Redis

Kafka

Spark

S3

Job description

About the Team

DoorDash is building the world's most reliable on-demand, logistics engine for delivery! We're looking for experienced engineers to join our fast-growing engineering team to help us develop a 24x7, global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash's three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers. And now, with our new São Paulo office, we offer an unique opportunity for fast tracking your career by experiencing an early venture and help DoorDash grow from a small team to one of the largest engineering hubs in the world.

About the Role

Our software engineers work at the intersection of product and infrastructure to solve key business problems with elegant technical solutions. You'll operate our backend services and architecture that support all product functionality and will be challenged to consider the big picture -- collaborating cross-functionally, as well as evaluating and executing on trade-offs to maximize business impact for the company.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Develop, release and run large-scale web applications
• Develop and define the backend architecture and tech stack for a product area
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for our backend systems
• Be involved in transitioning our monolithic codebase to a microservice-based architecture
• Completely disrupt logistics by tackling bleeding-edge, technical problems

We're excited about you because you have…

• B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8+ years of industry experience
• 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
• Prior experience working with backend tech stacks
• Ability to analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
• Experience with service oriented architecture, writing REST API's, unit testing, and architectural design
• Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (HTTP, REST)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and other technologies (e.g. Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Spark, S3)

Nice To Haves

• Experience building large scale, real-time applications
• Experience with Java/Kotlin
• Contributor to open source projects

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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 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.

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.

This position is open to candidates with disabilities. DoorDash welcomes applicants registered with the national autism registry (SisTEA) and others who seek an inclusive workplace.

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