Software Engineer, Backend Developer Experience

About this role

About The Team
The
Backend Developer Experience (DevEx)
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.


About The Role
As a Software Engineer on the
Backend Developer Experience
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.


Your work will directly improve
build and test performance
,
monorepo reliability
,
developer onboarding
, and the overall
productivity of thousands of engineers
. You’ll have the opportunity to work on high-impact, large-scale developer infrastructure that powers a global engineering organization.


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


You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will…

• Improve the developer workflow inside our monorepos through tooling, automation, and paved-path ...