Software Engineer, Cloud Engineering

Software Engineer, Cloud Engineering at DoorDash

About the Company

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

As a member of the Cloud Infrastructure Team within Core Infrastructure, you’ll design, build, and operate the foundational cloud systems that underpin all of DoorDash engineering. Your work will ensure that our cloud environments are secure, scalable, cost-efficient, and easy to use for product and platform teams alike. You’ll partner closely with Compute, Traffic, and Platform teams to evolve our multi-cloud strategy, modernize governance and automation, and enable teams to deliver faster with confidence.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Build and evolve DoorDash’s foundational cloud infrastructure in AWS (and emerging in GCP), including accounts, VPCs, networking, IPAM, and identity governance.
• Design and implement cloud networking at scale using Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, and cross-account peering.
• Automate infrastructure management through Terraform, Atlantis, and other Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Develop proactive monitoring and alerting for cloud health, network reachability, and service limits to improve reliability and visibility.
• Partner with platform teams to provide reusable cloud primitives (e.g., AWS building blocks) for self-serve infrastructure.
• Contribute to cloud governance and FinOps initiatives, helping enforce guardrails and optimize resource usage across accounts and services.
• Support multi-cloud expansion, developing the next generation of tooling and automation to spin up new environments in GCP or other providers.

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 2–5 years of experience building or operating cloud infrastructure at scale (AWS, GCP, or similar).
• You are proficient with Terraform, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automation pipelines (e.g., Atlantis, GitHub Actions).
• You have strong technical knowledge of VPC networking, subnets, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, and cross-account access patterns.
• You have experience implementing monitoring and alerting for cloud systems using tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, or Datadog.
• You write clean, maintainable code in Go, Python, or another modern language.
• You value solving problems at the platform level, building abstractions that make life easier for hundreds of engineers.

Bonus points if you…

• Have experience with multi-cloud environments or cloud portability initiatives.
• Have contributed to cost optimization, or governance automation.
• Have experience building self-service infrastructure platforms used by other teams.
• Understand or have contributed to network security and policy enforcement (e.g., SCPs, IAM boundaries).
• Enjoy working across multiple domains such as networking, infrastructure, automation, and developer experience.

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.

• 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. $130,600—$192,000 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.