Software Engineer, Unified Gateway

DoorDash; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

DoorDash in San Francisco is seeking experienced backend engineers to build and maintain the API Gateway platform that sits at the front door of our traffic. You will implement an HTTP-to-gRPC reverse proxy, translate REST/JSON into Protocol Buffers, and call downstream services to power our three-sided marketplace across consumers, merchants, and dashers.

You will enable product teams to declare, test, deploy, and operate endpoints, handling authentication, authorization, mapping, header

Job description

About The Team

Help us build the world's most reliable, on-demand logistics engine for last-mile delivery! We're bringing on experienced engineers to help us create and maintain a 24x7, no downtime, global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash's three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers.

About The Role

As a member of the Unified Gateway team, you'll build and maintain the API Gateway platform that sits at the front door of DoorDash's traffic — an HTTP-to-gRPC reverse proxy that accepts REST/JSON requests, translates them into Protocol Buffer messages, calls downstream gRPC services, and translates the responses back to clients. The platform empowers product engineers to declaratively define, test, deploy, and operate their API endpoints without standing up and managing their own edge services. It centrally handles authentication, authorization, request and response mapping, header propagation, encryption, and resilience, and powers experiences across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo spanning iOS, Android, and Web. By providing this robust platform, we deliver significant improvements in: