Technology & IT

Software Engineer, Reliability Platform at DoorDash

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  • Company: DoorDash
  • Location: San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Seattle, WA; New York City, NY
  • Job type: Full-time
  • Salary: $130,600 – $192,000

About the role

Join DoorDash’s Reliability Platform team to build systems that help engineering groups manage service reliability. You will design and operate backend services, orchestration workflows, and self-service platform capabilities. The team focuses on unifying incident management and leveraging agentic AI to improve operational efficiency across all DoorDash brands.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build mission-critical backend services and pipelines.
  • Develop frameworks to measure Service Level Objective (SLO) compliance across thousands of endpoints.
  • Create and maintain an internal SRE Agent that supports incident response and knowledge bases.
  • Implement Model Context Protocol (MCP) for agentic use of reliability data and tools.
  • Collaborate with Infrastructure and Product organizations to drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering roles.
  • Fluency in Go or a similar programming language.
  • Experience with AWS primitives, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
  • Understanding of SRE concepts such as SLOs, error budgets, and incident response.
  • Strong platform engineering mindset with a focus on APIs, abstractions, and workflows.
  • Willingness to use AI tools for coding, planning, and problem-solving.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is $130,600 to $192,000. Final pay is determined by skills, experience, and work location. In addition to base salary, the role includes opportunities for equity grants.

DoorDash offers a comprehensive benefits package including a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, and flexible paid time off. Salaried employees receive 80 hours of paid sick time per year. Additional benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, and wellness programs.

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