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Software Engineer, Backend Developer Experience

DoorDash

$130,600 - $192,000
Dec 4, 2025
San Francisco, CA, US • Sunnyvale, CA, US • Seattle, WA, US • New York, NY, US • Los Angeles, CA, US
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The Backend Developer Experience (DevEx) team at DoorDash aims to solve the problem of improving the efficiency, speed, and reliability of the software development lifecycle for thousands of backend engineers. This involves enhancing build and test performance, ensuring monorepo reliability, streamlining developer onboarding, and boosting overall engineer productivity through core systems, tools, and environments.

Requirements

  • You have 2+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or developer experience engineering.
  • You’re proficient in Go, Python, Kotlin, or other modern backend languages.
  • You’ve worked with build systems (e.g., Bazel, Gradle) or have built developer tooling, frameworks, or platform components that improve developer productivity.
  • You have hands-on experience with large-scale monorepos and understand the challenges of operating in them.
  • You’re familiar with Bazel, remote build execution, and build caching.
  • You have experience with DevContainers, IDE extensions, or other local development tooling.
  • You have knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
  • You have a background in building AI-assisted developer tools or integrating LLM-backed workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Improve the developer workflow inside our monorepos through tooling, automation, and paved-path standards.
  • Build and evolve the Bazel-based backend build ecosystem, including rules for Go, Python, and Kotlin.
  • Develop and enhance DevContainer-based local and remote development environments that offer fast, consistent, and production-faithful developer workflows.
  • Create and extend IDE plugins and tooling that streamline code navigation, build/test, and rapid feedback loops.
  • Contribute to AI-native developer tooling, enabling intelligent workflows for code generation, testing, debugging, and knowledge retrieval.
  • Design and build robust, scalable internal systems with engineering excellence and long-term maintainability in mind.

Other

  • You must be located in either San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Seattle, WA, or New York, NY
  • Motivated by making engineers’ lives better across the stack by improving developer workflows, performance, and reliability, and you enjoy eliminating toil and inefficiencies across the company.
  • If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.