Senior IT Engineer

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, 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.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.

See below for paid time off details:

• For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
• For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.$137,400—$202,000 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 with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering 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.

Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion

We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.

Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.