About the Team
The Build Platform team ensures that our Bazel-based build system can handle the scale and complexity of DoorDash’s diverse codebases, architectures, and programming languages. The team is dedicated to providing reliable, scalable, and repeatable cloud infrastructure that empowers DoorDash developers to build and deploy great products quickly and safely. Our "customers" are the thousands of software engineers working across the globe at DoorDash.
About the Role
As a senior member of the Build Platform team, you will:
- Develop Bazel rules, scripts, and utilities to make common operations more accessible for developers.
- Manage and maintain remote execution environments for Bazel builds.
- Optimize build performance to minimize build times and resource consumption.
- Automate routine tasks, such as dependency updates or rule version upgrades.
- Create detailed documentation, tutorials, and onboarding guides for using Bazel effectively.
- Provide support and troubleshooting for Bazel-related issues encountered by developers.
- Design clear and actionable error messages or suggestions for common Bazel challenges.
- Lead initiatives that streamline the process of shipping code to production, making it faster and more enjoyable.
This role reports to the Engineering Manager of the Build & Deploy Platform team within our Infrastructure organization.
Why You'll Love This Opportunity
You will:
- Leverage your expertise with Bazel to shape and refine our monorepo strategy.
- Help make DoorDash one of the best places in the world to develop services and applications.
- Transform the daily work of thousands of software developers by unlocking the full potential of Bazel.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and infrastructure teams to stay at the forefront of technology.
- Join a rapidly growing company and advance your career alongside our growth.
We're excited about you because…
- You bring extensive domain expertise in Bazel.
- You are already comfortable with remote build & execution, have an opinion on whether BuildFarm or BuildBarn is better, and are comfortable setting up and running remote Bazel infra.
- You are comfortable configuring Bazel toolchains for both local and remote.
- You have 6+ years of experience in a software engineering role (excluding internships) and possess strong coding skills, with demonstrated proficiency in Go. Additionally, experience in Kotlin, Python, and similar languages is beneficial.
- You have a proven ability to design, build, and maintain modern developer tools, including scalable build systems and CI platforms.
- You have experience with most of the following: AWS, Artifactory, Kubernetes, BuildKite and Protobufs.
Notice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only
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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, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act) (for salaried roles: flexible 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), 16 weeks of paid parental leave, a wellness benefit, and a commuter benefit match.
Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.
To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.
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.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
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.
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