Senior IT Engineer
DoorDashAbout the role
About the Team
DoorDash’s ability to deliver best-in-class products and enable local commerce at global scale depends on creating seamless, efficient, and empowering experiences for plays a critical role in this mission by designing, architecting, and building applications that drive cross-functional process efficiencies, deliver custom solutions, and power automation.
About the Role
As a Senior IT Engineer on this team, you will work closely with partners across the organization to influence key technology decisions, develop innovative solutions, and help shape the future of how employees experience and interact with enterprise systems. Your contributions will have a lasting impact on both the effectiveness of our internal operations and the success of the company as a whole
This will be a remote role and you will report to the Team Lead, IT Apps and Automation.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Support internal customers by building UI solutions and tools
- Build resilient automation tools to streamline IT business processes and efficiencies
- Work closely with business partners to understand business strategies while aligning product outcomes to create exceptional experiences using various technology
- Partner with IT Leadership to develop solutions for improving transparency and unlocking efficiencies across critical business functions
- Leverage technical and business knowledge to identify opportunities for improvements.
We’re excited about you because you have…
- 5+ years of software development experience with multiple programming languages and frameworks (NodeJS/TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, React)
- Knowledge of frontend technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3, React
- Experience with databases such as Postgres, MYSQL, Cassandra and Scripting knowledge on SQL/PLSQL, with the ability to write complex queries and optimize database performance
- Familiarity with Agentic Coding practices and a general understanding of Generative AI and LLMs
- Strong foundation in computer science and engineering: algorithms, data structures, programming, databases, design patterns, virtualization, etc.
- Experience in building large-scale microservices and applications using cloud services like AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Familiarity with development practices and patterns like GitOps, CI/CD, Scrum, and TDD (specific knowledge of Argo, Buildkite, GitHub, and Jira is a plus)
- Familiarity with orchestration and containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker/Orbstack
- Ability to analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, security, and stability of system resources
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and ability to collaborate with remote team members across time zones
- You are outcomes-oriented, always evaluating whether our solution or team's activities are achieving the desired, measurable impact, and continuously iterating to ensure the best solution
- You are an owner, always looking for opportunities to learn and better your work product
- You are comfortable and thrive in a fast-paced, continually changing team-oriented environment and able to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously
We expect this position to be filled by 11/17/2025.
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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.
DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, whi
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