Software Engineer, Backend Developer Experience

<div class="content-intro"><p><img style="display: none; max-width: 100%;" src="https://click.appcast.io/greenhouse-te8/a31.png?ent=34e=22630t=1701374353806" width="1px"> <img style="display: none; max-width: 100%;" src="https://track.jobadx.com/v1/i.gif?utm_pixel=224e990b-8ff4-4287-8d5d-2ff09647f181utm_ptz=ESTutm_rqt=track" alt="" width="1"></p></div><h2><strong>About the Team</strong></h2> <p>The <strong>Backend Developer Experience (DevEx)</strong> 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. </p> <h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>As a Software Engineer on the <strong>Backend Developer Experience</strong> team, 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.</p> <p>Your work will directly improve <strong>build and test performance</strong>, <strong>monorepo reliability</strong>, <strong>developer onboarding</strong>, and the overall <strong>productivity of thousands of engineers</strong>. You’ll have the opportunity to work on high-impact, large-scale developer infrastructure that powers a global engineering organization.</p> <p>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 </p> <h2><strong>You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Improve the <strong>developer workflow inside our monorepos</strong> through tooling, automation, and paved-path standards.</li> <li>Build and evolve the <strong>Bazel-based backend build ecosystem</strong>, including rules for Go, Python, and Kotlin.</li> <li>Develop and enhance <strong>DevContainer-based local and remote development environments</strong> that offer fast, consistent, and production-faithful developer workflows.</li> <li>Create and extend <strong>IDE plugins and tooling</strong> that streamline code navigation, build/test, and rapid feedback loops.</li> <li>Contribute to <strong>AI-native developer tooling</strong>, enabling intelligent workflows for code generation, testing, debugging, and knowledge retrieval.</li> <li>Design and build robust, scalable internal systems with engineering excellence and long-term maintainability in mind.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>We’re excited about you because…</strong></h2> <ul> <li>You have <strong>2+ years of experience</strong> in backend, infrastructure, or developer experience engineering.</li> <li>You’re proficient in <strong>Go, Python, Kotlin</strong>, or other modern backend languages.</li> <li>You’ve worked with <strong>build systems</strong> (e.g., Bazel, Gradle) or have built developer tooling, frameworks, or platform components that improve developer productivity.</li> <li>You have hands-on experience with <strong>large-scale monorepos</strong> and understand the challenges of operating in them.</li> <li>You’re familiar with <strong>Bazel</strong>, remote build execution, and build caching.</li> <li>You ha ... (truncated, view full listing at source)