About the Team

Our mission is to enable Door Dash Backend engineers across our three engineering excellence pillars: Quality, Velocity and Efficiency. We provide the framework-level solutions which enable engineers to build, ship, and operate services at scale and with confidence.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer on the Backend Frameworks team, you will be building frameworks and libraries as part of a central platform that powers backend applications across all engineering teams at Door Dash.

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 Door Dash Engineers to excel at backend engineering.

• Play a foundational role in guiding the future of Door Dash’s software development strategy, by building, extending, and operating a central platform used by all Door Dash engineering teams.

• Be at the forefront of developing new technologies and have the opportunity to leverage and contribute to open source tech.

• Contribute to 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 have 5+ years of industry experience, working on backend systems at large scale.

• You have 3+ years experience in Golang and experience with large codebase build systems (e.g. Bazel, Buck).

• You are comfortable working on distributed systems and platform components, and have demonstrated effectiveness in building them at scale

• You apply a product mindset to platform problems and feel accomplished enabling others.

• You’re curious and dive deep into different system architectures.

• You solve problems using software to automate and avoid creating toil for others.

• You are an organized and excellent written and verbal communicator.

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Compensation:

The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

Door Dash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). Door Dash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.

See below for paid time off details:

• For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.

• For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).

The national base pay ranges for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

I4**$130,600—$192,000 USDI5$159,800—$235,000 USDI6$193,800—$285,000 USD**

About Door Dash

At Door Dash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.

Door Dash 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. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.

Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Door Dash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.