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 Senior 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. Lead 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, and provide mentorship for more junior engineers on the team. Join a growing company and grow right along with us. We’re excited about you because… You are a builder and have 5+ years of experience working on backend platform and infrastructure teams. Proficiency in at least one OOP language (Java, Kotlin, or Go) You are comfortable working on platform components and have demonstrated effectiveness in building and managing them at scale. You possess strong cross-functional collaboration skills and can drive the execution of large projects with multiple stakeholders forward. 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 and avoid creating toil for others

 

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