Senior Software Engineer, Traffic

About the Team

Help us build the world's most reliable, on‑demand logistics engine for last‑mile delivery! We're bringing on experienced engineers to help us create and maintain a 24x7, no downtime, global infrastructure system that powers Door Dash’s three‑sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers.

About the Role

As a member of the Traffic team, you will design, build, and operate the networking and service mesh platform that enables reliable, secure, and efficient service‑to‑service communication across Door Dash’s global infrastructure. You will report to the Engineering Manager on the Traffic Team within the Core Infrastructure organization. This role is 100% remote.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Work with a world‑class team of engineers building the foundation of Door Dash’s internal and external traffic systems.

• Operate and evolve Door Dash’s service mesh, built on Envoy and modern cloud‑native technologies.

• Design and implement systems that improve reliability, observability, latency, and security for all service‑to‑service communication.

• Develop automation and tooling to manage configurations, policy rollout, and traffic routing at scale.

• Collaborate with Compute, Cloud Infra, and Product teams to ensure consistent networking abstractions and developer experience.

• Drive best practices in API management, service discovery, load balancing, and fault tolerance.

• Work in a 100% cloud environment (AWS, GCP) using technologies such as Envoy, Argo CD, Prometheus, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering.

• You have hands‑on experience with service mesh or networking systems such as Envoy, Istio, Linkerd, or NGINX.

• You are comfortable operating distributed systems and debugging complex traffic or reliability issues.

• You have strong development skills in Go, Python, or similar languages.

• You understand containerized environments and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.).

Bonus points if you…

• Have experience designing and running high‑traffic, production‑grade service communication systems.

• Have strong knowledge of HTTP, TCP/IP, TLS, load balancing, and DNS.

• Have experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry).

• Are passionate about reliability, simplicity, and developer experience.

• Have contributed to the CNCF or Envoy communities.

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…