Senior Software Engineer, Traffic

Senior Software Engineer, Traffic – Door Dash

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.).

• Experience designing and running high-traffic, production-grade service communication systems.
• Strong knowledge of HTTP, TCP/IP, TLS, load balancing, and DNS.
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry).
• Passion for reliability, simplicity, and developer experience.
• Contributions to CNCF or Envoy communities.

The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed and is determined based on skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized and ranges may be modified in the future. In addition to base salary, the role includes opportunities for equity grants. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including health, retirement, parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits, paid time off and sick leave, and other benefits.

For more details, see our careers page.

Door Dash is committed to diversity and inclusion. We provide accommodations for applicants as needed. Our non-discrimination policy covers protected characteristics and we encourage diverse candidates to apply.

Door Dash empowers local economies and connects consumers, merchants, and dashers through technology and logistics. We are a technology and logistics company focused on delivering more than just food, with a commitment to employee well-being and comprehensive benefits.