Senior Platform Engineer, Developer Platform

In this Senior Platform Engineer role, you will strengthen our London engineering platform by building a secure, reliable and scalable infrastructure to support rapid growth. You’ll join the Developer Platform group, owning core systems and developer tooling to speed shipping and reduce friction. You’ll influence long-term platform direction while delivering durable, high-quality solutions. This role offers the chance to shape the developer experience across DoorDash’s ecosystem, helping millions of customers, riders and partners perform at their best.

• competitive salary and equity options
• flexible working
• continuous learning
• high-ownership environment

• Own and translate customer problems into well-scoped work items
• Set high craftsmanship, reliability and scalability standards and lead by example
• Manage ambiguity with effective project management
• Take ownership of charter areas and deliver real impact
• Identify gaps and provide cross-functional recommendations
• Model empathy and mentorship within the team

• Go and/or Python software engineering
• Terraform infrastructure tooling
• Extensive AWS cloud environment experience
• Contribution to platform-domain direction (e.g., container orchestration, Kafka, build systems, observability)
• Background in AI-assisted developer tools or LLM-backed integrations

• empathy
• leadership and mentorship
• cross-functional collaboration
• Go
• Python
• Terraform