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About the Role

As a member of the Unified Gateway team, you'll build and maintain the API Gateway platform that sits at the front door of DoorDash's traffic. This platform empowers product engineers to declaratively define, test, deploy, and operate their API endpoints without standing up and managing their own edge services. It centrally handles authentication, authorization, request and response mapping, header propagation, encryption, and resilience, and powers experiences across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo spanning iOS, Android, and Web. By providing this robust platform, we deliver significant improvements in velocity, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

Design and build robust, scalable systems with engineering excellence and long-term maintainability in mind.
Improve performance, reliability, scalability, and security across the gateway and its request-processing pipeline.
Drive best practices in API management, service discovery, load balancing, and fault tolerance.
Champion adoption of the Unified Gateway platform across product teams.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in our high-throughput production environment.
Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance the platform's capabilities.
Leverage the latest AI-assisted development tools and best practices.

Requirements

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 — authentication and authorization, request routing, and schema/contract management (e.g., OpenAPI).
Value solving problems at the platform level, building abstractions that make life easier for hundreds of engineers.
Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software.

Skills

gRPC
REST APIs
Protocol Buffers
Kotlin
JVM language
Asynchronous/reactive frameworks (e.g., Vert.x)
API gateway
Proxy concerns
Authentication
Authorization
Request routing
Schema/contract management
OpenAPI
AI coding tools

Location

United States
Illinois
Colorado
Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

2+ years of experience

Salary/Compensations

$130,600—$192,000 USD

Benefits

401(k) plan with employer matching
16 weeks of paid parental leave
Wellness benefits
Commuter benefits match
Paid time off
Paid sick leave
Medical benefits
Dental benefits
Vision benefits
11 paid holidays
Disability and basic life insurance
Family-forming assistance
Mental health program

About the Company

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.

Equal Opportunity

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.