Software Engineer, Backend - Presentation Gateway

About the Team 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 DoorDash’s three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers. About the Role As a member of the Presentation Gateway team, you’ll be entrusted with building and maintaining an innovative new API Gateway Platform. This platform empowers product engineers to efficiently implement, test, deploy, and maintain the presentation logic for DoorDash client applications, including DoorDash and DoorDash Driver apps and spanning across iOS, Android, Web and other platforms. By providing this robust platform, we eliminate the need for product teams to manage their own services, leading to significant improvements in: Velocity: Product engineers can iterate faster and deliver features more quickly. Scalability: The framework is designed to handle increasing demands and traffic seamlessly. Reliability: Safe programming model, centralized management and standardized practices enhance system stability and reduce errors. Cost Efficiency: Consolidating resources and streamlining processes optimizes operational costs across DoorDash. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Design and build robust, scalable systems with engineering excellence and long-term maintainability in mind. Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for our backend systems. Work and collaborate across team boundaries. Drive best practices in API management, service discovery, load balancing, and fault tolerance. Champion adoption of the Presentation Gateway platform across various product teams. Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in our production environment. Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance the platform's capabilities. Leverage the latest AI tools development best practices. We’re excited about you because… You have 2+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering. You have experience with gRPC, REST APIs, and service communication patterns. You have deep knowledge of best practices in Kotlin and/or Go for building high-scale, resilient systems. You have experience working on high-throughput, mission-critical production systems. You have a strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consistency, fault tolerance, and load balancing. You value solving problems at the platform level, building abstractions that make life easier for hundreds of engineers. Notice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only We use Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023, and resumed using Covey Scout for Inbound again on June 29, 2024. The Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor. Results of the audit may be viewed here: Covey 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 b ... (truncated, view full listing at source)