# Staff Software Engineer, Traffic at DoorDash USA

- Company: DoorDash USA
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: Engineering
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $194K–285K
- Posted: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/doordashusa/jobs/8333742

## Description

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 
 We are looking for experienced engineers to join the Traffic team and help build the next generation of DoorDash’s Traffic platform. Our team develops and operates the critical traffic infrastructure that powers communication between thousands of services across multiple regions, as well as the ingress systems that handle external traffic entering the DoorDash platform.
 You will work on core components of our traffic stack, including the Envoy Data Plane, xDS control planes and proxyless architecture. This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, and large-scale infrastructure. This role includes designing, building, and maintaining systems that must operate reliably and efficiently across some of the most critical and latency-sensitive workloads at DoorDash.
 You will report to the Engineering Manager of the Traffic Team within the Infrastructure organization. This role is hybrid working from one of our engineering hubs based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle or New York
 You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… 
• Design and build large-scale distributed systems that are high RPS and latency sensitive
• Troubleshoot, debug, and fix issues that affect production and maintain our SLAs
• Work collaborat

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