Staff Distributed Systems Engineer - Traffic Platform

DoorDash, Inc.; San Francisco, Seattle, New York (CA, WA, NY); Hybrid; USD 194,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

DoorDash is recruiting experienced engineers to join the Traffic team and build the next generation of our global, latency-sensitive traffic platform. You will work on core components like Envoy Data Plane, xDS control planes, and scalable infrastructure across multiple regions.

This hybrid role reports to the Engineering Manager of the Traffic Team and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, or New York.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering.
• Experience with programming languages like Go, C++, Python or Rust.
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes.
• Background working on latency-sensitive systems.
• Proficient with AI coding tools in the full software lifecycle.
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Envoy, Istio or Linkerd.
• Familiarity with xDS or control plane architectures.
• Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, Load Balancing.
• Experience building RPC frameworks or client-side networking libraries.
• Experience with AWS Networking Primitives like Load Balancers, Privatelink.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling like Terraform.
• Experience with Gitops tooling such as ArgoCD, Helm, Atlantis.

Responsibilities

• Design and build large-scale distributed systems that are high RPS and latency sensitive.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and fix issues that affect production and maintain our SLAs.
• Collaborate with other platform and product engineers to deliver on feature requests.
• Find ways to improve the team’s productivity and operational capabilities through automation and AI tools.
• Participate in a shared on-call and lead production investigations and incidents.

Job description

DoorDash is recruiting experienced engineers to join the Traffic team and build the next generation of our global, latency-sensitive traffic platform. You will work on core components like Envoy Data Plane, xDS control planes, and scalable infrastructure across multiple regions.

This hybrid role reports to the Engineering Manager of the Traffic Team and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, or New York.