The Traffic team at DoorDash is seeking experienced engineers to develop and maintain the next generation of their Traffic platform. This role focuses on building critical traffic infrastructure that facilitates communication between numerous services across various regions. Engineers will work on core components of the traffic stack, including the Envoy Data Plane and proxyless architecture. The position is hybrid and based in engineering hubs located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, or New York.

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering.
• Experience with programming languages such as Go, C++, Python, or Rust.
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes.
• Background in debugging high-QPS or latency-sensitive systems.
• Proficiency in using AI coding tools throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Design and build large-scale distributed systems that are high RPS and latency sensitive.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and fix issues that affect production and maintain SLAs.
• Collaborate with other platform and product engineers to deliver on feature requests and solve problems.
• Improve the team’s productivity and operational capabilities through automation and AI tools.
• Participate in a shared on-call and support rotation and lead production investigations and incidents.