Backend Engineer - Microservices at Scale (Hybrid)

DoorDash, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking Backend Engineers to join our hybrid SF team. You’ll own backend services and architecture, solving complex problems at scale while collaborating across product and platform teams.

The role emphasizes building reliable, secure systems and evolving from monoliths to microservices. We value experience with REST, SQL/NoSQL, and modern web stacks, plus a solid foundation in performance, reliability, and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or an equivalent field.
• 2+ years of industry experience in backend development.

Responsibilities

• Develop, release and run large-scale web applications.
• Define backend architecture and tech stack for a product area.
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for backend systems.
• Contribute to transitioning monolithic codebase to microservices.

Skills

Backend development

REST APIs

SQL/NoSQL

Service-oriented architecture

Unit testing

Web architecture

HTTP

Postgres

Redis

Elasticsearch

RabbitMQ

AI coding tools

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS or equivalent

Tools

Postgres

Redis

Elasticsearch

RabbitMQ

Job description

DoorDash is seeking Backend Engineers to join our hybrid SF team. You’ll own backend services and architecture, solving complex problems at scale while collaborating across product and platform teams.

The role emphasizes building reliable, secure systems and evolving from monoliths to microservices. We value experience with REST, SQL/NoSQL, and modern web stacks, plus a solid foundation in performance, reliability, and security.