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# Staff Software Engineer, Backend

- **Company:** DOORDASH, INC.
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,600.0 - $192,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Unit Testing, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Backend, Information Technology, Restful APIs
- **Published:** June 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000g7z9xi

## About the Role

+ B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent

 + 8+ years of industry experience

 + 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

 + Prior experience working with backend tech stacks

 + Ability to analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources

 + Experience with service oriented architecture, writing REST API's, unit testing, and architectural design

 + Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (HTTP, REST)

 + Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and other technologies (e.g. Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ)

## Description

We're looking for Staff Backend Engineers to work on both Product and Product Platform based teams. Product focused Engineers work at the intersection of product and infrastructure to solve key business problems with elegant technical solutions. You'll operate our backend services and architecture that support all product functionality and will be challenged to consider the big picture -- collaborating cross-functionally, as well as evaluating and executing on trade-offs to maximize business impact for the company. We expect Staff Engineers to be able to run cross-functional projects end to end, mentor their junior to mid level peers and influence our technical roadmaps

This role is hybrid with some in-office time expected and will report to an Engineering Manager.


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