Software Engineer, Test Platform
At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly and always learn and reiterate to support merchants, Dashers and the communities we serve. We are a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.
DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. Our leaders seek the truth and welcome big, hairy, audacious questions. We are grounded in our company values, and we make intentional decisions that are both logical and display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to Merchants to Customers.
Job Description
About The Team
Our mission is to improve the DoorDash developer velocity by providing them with a robust paved path development experience with rapid feedback loops. As a central infrastructure team reimagining the software development process, we are committed to removing as much unnecessary manual work and toil as possible from engineers so they can focus on what really matters - building products for our customers. We empower engineers to move faster with more confidence by making the development loop blazing fast, making it possible to rapidly develop & test changes with high fidelity and start working on new codebases in minutes. The team has the opportunity to interface with nearly every part of the company and has significant autonomy to innovate and leverage best-in-class technologies to build those delightful solutions for our engineers.
About The Role
As a Software Engineer on the Test Platform team, you will be building developer tools, frameworks and libraries as part of a central platform that powers the Software Development Lifecycle across all engineering teams at DoorDash. For instance, you will help build DoorDash’s next generation development environment using devcontainers open source technology, and a safe but realistic sandbox environment where engineers can test their code on their laptop or their phones just like it were in production. You will work closely with engineers, technical product managers, and engineering managers across all parts of the engineering organization to deliver large and impactful initiatives. Additionally, you will be a culture carrier in your team through mentorship, education, and uplifting of your peers.
You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will…
- Develop and maintain foundational components to enable DoorDash Engineers to excel at all aspects of their software development lifecycle.
- Play a foundational role in guiding the future of DoorDash’s software development strategy, by building, extending, and operating a central platform used by all DoorDash engineering teams.
- Be at the forefront of developing new technologies and have the opportunity to leverage and contribute to open source tech.
- Work on cross-functional projects by designing large scale systems with engineering excellence, long-term maintainability, and risk in mind.
- Work with a team of highly talented and motivated teammates.
- Join a growing company and grow right along with us.
We’re Excited About You Because…
- You are a builder and have 2+ years of experience working on backend platform and infrastructure teams.
- Proficiency in at least one OOP language (Java, Kotlin, or Go).
- Experience building & maintaining platform components at scale.
- You apply a product mindset to platform problems and feel accomplished enabling others.
- You strive for design simplicity and consistency above all else.
- You solve problems using software to automate or prevent toil.
The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographical market up to our highest geographical market within California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Washington.
