Software Engineer, Unified Gateway
DoorDash USA · San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY
Posted 26 days ago
or apply directly on DoorDash USA's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 26 days DoorDash USA's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of DoorDash USA's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at DoorDash USA
- low 0 stale, 8 reposted of 462 open
- Hiring momentum
- 682 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from DoorDash USA's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for DoorDash USA.
About this role
As a Software Engineer on the Unified Gateway team at DoorDash, you will design, build, and maintain the API Gateway platform that facilitates communication between various services in a high-throughput environment. Your role will involve improving system performance, reliability, and scalability while promoting best practices in API management. You will also troubleshoot complex issues and evaluate new technologies to enhance the platform's capabilities.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of DoorDash USA as an employer.
What you need
- 2+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering
- Experience with gRPC, REST APIs, Protocol Buffers, and service-to-service communication patterns
- Deep knowledge of best practices in Kotlin (or another JVM language) for building high-scale, resilient systems
- Experience working on high-throughput, mission-critical production systems
- Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consistency, fault tolerance, load balancing, and resilience patterns
- Comfortable with API gateway and proxy concerns such as authentication and authorization, request routing, and schema/contract management
Nice to have
- Familiarity with asynchronous/reactive frameworks such as Vert.x
What you get
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits match
- Paid time off and paid sick leave
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
Worth weighing
- No specific salary figure provided, only a range
- The role involves working on a high-throughput production environment, which may come with high pressure
- The technology stack includes both modern and potentially legacy components, depending on existing systems
Summarised from DoorDash USA's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by DoorDash USA on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
More roles at DoorDash USA
- Shift Lead - WindcrestSan Antonio, TX
- Senior Manager, Agency Partnerships Strategy & OperationsNew York, NY; Chicago, IL; San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; Washington D.C.
- Kitchen Operations Associate, DashMartAkron, OH
- Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Applied Causal InferenceSan Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; New York City, NY
- Regional Merchant LeadWilmington, DE
- Associate Manager, DriveSan Francisco, CA;Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL; Austin, TX; Seattle, WA;Atlanta, GA
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Causal InferenceSan Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; New York City, NY
- Sales Manager, DoorDash for BusinessSan Francisco, CA; Las Vegas, NV; Seattle, WA; Los Angeles; CA; San Diego, CA; Portland, OR; Sacramento, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Denver, CO; Boise, ID; Salt Lake City, UT