Software Engineer, Reliability Platform

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate mission-critical backend services and infrastructure for the Reliability Platform.
• Develop self-service platform capabilities, complex orchestration workflows, and reliability data pipelines.
• Unify incident-management processes and tooling across DoorDash-owned brands.
• Create frameworks to measure SLO compliance and quality across tens of thousands of endpoints.
• Build internal SRE agent capabilities, team-specific knowledge bases, and MCP integrations for reliability data and tools.
• Collaborate with internal engineering customers and stakeholders to deliver strategic, high-quality, automated solutions.
• Experiment with agentic AI workflows that can propose, validate, and safely execute production changes.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering.
• Fluency in Go or a similar programming language and ability to design scalable, resilient, performant, and efficient services.
• Experience with AWS primitives, security best practices, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Understanding of SLOs, error budgets, and incident response.
• A platform engineering mindset focused on APIs, abstractions, workflows, and systems used by other engineers.
• Interest in automation, agentic AI-assisted operations, and using AI tools to improve engineering productivity.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability insurance, basic life insurance, and a mental health program.
• 401(k) plan with employer matching and 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, family-forming assistance, paid time off, and paid sick leave.
• 11 paid holidays; salaried roles receive flexible paid time off and 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
• U.S. salaried employment with a national base pay range of $130,600–$192,000, plus potential equity grants.