Senior Traffic Platform Engineer – Distributed Systems

DoorDash USA; New York, Seattle, San Francisco (NY, WA, CA); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with employer matching

Paid parental leave

wellness benefits

Commuter benefits match

Paid time off and sick leave

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking experienced engineers for the Traffic team to build and maintain a 24x7, global traffic platform. You will work on core components of the traffic stack, including the Envoy Data Plane, xDS control planes and proxyless architecture to support latency-sensitive workloads.

Hybrid work from an engineering hub in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle or New York, reporting to the Engineering Manager of the Traffic Team within Infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering.
• Proficiency in Go, C++, Python or Rust.
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes.
• Background on high-QPS or latency-sensitive systems.
• Familiar with AI coding tools in the full software lifecycle.
• Experience with service mesh technologies like Envoy/Istio/Linkerd.
• Knowledge of xDS/control plane architectures and networking fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design and build large-scale distributed systems that are high RPS and latency sensitive.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and fix issues affecting production and SLAs.
• Collaborate with platform and product engineers to deliver features.
• Improve team productivity via automation and AI tools.
• Participate in on-call rotation and lead production investigations.

Skills

Go

C++

Python

Rust

AWS

Kubernetes

gRPC

Envoy

xDS

Airflow/Automation

Tools

Envoy Data Plane

Istio/Linkerd

Terraform

ArgoCD

Helm

Job description

DoorDash is seeking experienced engineers for the Traffic team to build and maintain a 24x7, global traffic platform. You will work on core components of the traffic stack, including the Envoy Data Plane, xDS control planes and proxyless architecture to support latency-sensitive workloads.

Hybrid work from an engineering hub in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle or New York, reporting to the Engineering Manager of the Traffic Team within Infrastructure.