Software Engineer, Backend Developer Experience

About The Team

The Backend Developer Experience (DevEx) team builds the core systems, tools, and environments that empower engineers to develop, test, and ship high-quality services quickly and confidently. We own and evolve the developer experience for DoorDash’s backend monorepos, maintain the Bazel-based build ecosystem, provide the paved-path DevContainers-based development platform for engineers & agentic workflows, and develop IDE and tooling. Our mission is to remove friction, improve iteration speed, and ensure a consistent, reliable developer experience across every stage of DoorDash’s software development lifecycle.

About The Role

As a Software Engineer, Backend Developer Experience, you will shape how engineers build, test, and ship code at DoorDash. You’ll design and develop the core systems and tooling that backend engineers rely on every day, from Bazel language rules and monorepo libraries/workflows, to high-fidelity DevContainer environments, to agentic, productivity-enhancing AI workflows.

Your work will directly improve build and test performance, monorepo reliability, developer onboarding, and the overall productivity of thousands of engineers. You’ll have the opportunity to work on high-impact, large-scale developer infrastructure that powers a global engineering organization.

Join us to help define the future of DoorDash’s developer experience, build systems used daily across the company, and collaborate with a team committed to creating a fast, reliable, and joyful developer experience. You will report into the Engineering Manager of our Backend Developer Experience team in our Developer Platform organization. You must be located in either San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Seattle, WA, or New York, NY

What You Will Do

• Improve the developer workflow inside our monorepos through tooling, automation, and paved-path standards.
• Build and evolve the Bazel-based backend build ecosystem, including rules for Go, Python, and Kotlin.
• Develop and enhance DevContainer-based local and remote development environments that offer fast, consistent, and production-faithful developer workflows.
• Create and extend IDE plugins and tooling that streamline code navigation, build/test, and rapid feedback loops.
• Contribute to AI-native developer tooling, enabling intelligent workflows for code generation, testing, debugging, and knowledge retrieval.
• Design and build robust, scalable internal systems with engineering excellence and long-term maintainability in mind.

What We Look For

• 2+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or developer experience engineering.
• Proficient in Go, Python, Kotlin, or other modern backend languages.
• Experience with build systems (e.g., Bazel, Gradle) or having built developer tooling, frameworks, or platform components that improve developer productivity.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale monorepos and understanding of operating challenges.
• Familiarity with Bazel, remote build execution, and build caching.
• Experience with DevContainers, IDE extensions, or other local development tooling.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
• Background in building AI-assisted developer tools or integrating LLM-backed workflows.
• Motivation to make engineers’ lives better across the stack by improving developer workflows, performance, and reliability, and you enjoy eliminating toil and inefficiencies across the company.

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, 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). DoorDash 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.

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado: $130,600—$192,000 USD

About DoorDash

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.

DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

Key skills/competency

• Developer Experience (DevEx)
• Backend Engineering
• Bazel Build System
• Monorepo Management
• Go/Python/Kotlin
• DevContainer Environments
• IDE Tooling
• AI-Native Developer Tools
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Workflow Automation