Senior Infra Engineer, Traffic Platform

Visa Hunt; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

401(k) with employer matching

16 weeks paid parental leave

Wellness benefits

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking experienced engineers for the Traffic team to build and operate the next generation of its Traffic platform. You will work on core components like Envoy Data Plane, xDS control planes, and a proxyless architecture across a global, latency-sensitive workload.

You will report to the Engineering Manager of the Traffic Team within Infrastructure. The role is hybrid, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, or New York, and involves on-call rotations and cross-team

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design large-scale distributed systems with high RPS and latency sensitivity.
• Troubleshoot production issues and resolve incidents to meet SLAs.
• Collaborate with platform and product engineers on feature delivery.
• Improve team productivity with automation and AI tooling.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead production investigations.

Skills

Infrastructure experience

Distributed systems

Go/C++/Python/Rust

AWS & Kubernetes

AI coding tools

Tools

Envoy

Istio

Linkerd

Terraform

ArgoCD

Helm

Atlantis

xDS

Job description

DoorDash is seeking experienced engineers for the Traffic team to build and operate the next generation of its Traffic platform. You will work on core components like Envoy Data Plane, xDS control planes, and a proxyless architecture across a global, latency-sensitive workload.

You will report to the Engineering Manager of the Traffic Team within Infrastructure. The role is hybrid, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, or New York, and involves on-call rotations and cross-team