# Senior Software Engineer, Build Systems & CI

About the Team The Code Scalability team owns build systems and continuous integration across DoorDash. When a shared dependency changes or more teams contribute to a monorepo, the cost of building software can grow for everyone. We tackle that challenge with Bazel, Buildkite, and infrastructure that keeps everyday development efficient. Our work gives teams a dependable path from a code change to a completed build, with fewer delays and less infrastructure troubleshooting. About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer on Code Scalability, you will solve the engineering problems behind building software at DoorDash’s scale. A change deep in a monorepo can trigger work across many projects; your job is to make that work efficient, predictable, and easy to investigate when something goes wrong. Projects span Bazel configuration and tooling, Buildkite orchestration, build execution and caching, and the services that support them. You will identify where improvements matter most, make the technical decisions, and work with teams across DoorDash to put those changes into practice. The impact of this role extends to every team that depends on our platform. Shorter queues give engineers mo

- **Id**: 969620
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/doordash-senior-software-engineer-build-systems-ci>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States, New York, United States, San Francisco, United States, Los Angeles, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-16T15:30:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T11:07:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 55
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9579
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Delivery, Marketplaces

## Company

- **Id**: 3685
- **Name**: DoorDash
- **Domain**: doordash.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/doordash-usa>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 82
- **Ghost share**: 0.012
- **Stale share**: 0.585
- **Repost share**: 0.024
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 66
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 159800
- **Max**: 235000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 235000

## Technologies

- **Bazel** — Optional: no
- **Buildkite** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 55

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-16T16:56:09Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 504 · green card filings: 110; Filings 12m: 504

## Liveness

- **Score**: 37
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.616
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 55
- **Expected fill days**: 66
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:late, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 235000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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