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 Compute Team, you will build and operate a Kubernetes platform for running containerized workloads reliably and efficiently at scale. You will report to the Engineering Manager on the Compute Team in the Core Infrastructure organization. This role is expected to be 100% remote.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Work with a fantastic bunch of highly talented and collaborative teammates and colleagues. Support the deployment and operation of multiple highly available Kubernetes clusters. Establish and enforce best practices for Kubernetes, including deployment patterns, sizing, etc. Develop solutions with support for monitoring, metrics, and automation. Collaborate with other teams to influence design for engineering excellence. Design, develop, and deliver significant features and components to improve and enable service-to-service communication needs for all DoorDash teams in a secure, robust, and scalable way. Work in a 100% Cloud Environment (AWS) and use tools and services like Argo Workflows, Argo CD, kOps, Prometheus, etc. We’re excited about you because… You have 2-5 years of experience as a software engineer in infrastructure and/or platform teams. You have prior experience with modern infrastructure tooling, such as Kubernetes, as an administrator or operator in a production setting, e.g. container orchestration, cloud providers (AWS, GCP, etc.), and infrastructure-as-code tools. You have strong development skills in Go, Python or other programming languages. Bonus points if you… Have experience designing, developing, operating, and debugging high-traffic production systems. Have experience using AWS cloud services Have strong knowledge of Linux or similar operating systems and networking. Are curious and driven to understand the needs of your customers. Believe in providing valuable abstractions, clear customer SLOs, and meaningful KPIs. Have prior contributions to projects within the CNCF community.

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