Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure – Labs

DoorDash

Infrastructure Software Engineer at DoorDash Labs designing systems for autonomous delivery robots. Collaborating with teams to improve infrastructure for simulation testing and machine learning.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $159,800 - $235,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DockerKubernetesPythonRaySparkSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Have significant scope and decision-making responsibility
Design and implement infrastructure to enable autonomous vehicle development, including:
Large-scale distributed simulation execution
Ingest, processing, and organization of petabyte-scale datasets
GPU-accelerated distributed computing for data preparation and training
Design and implement robot data and metrics pipelines
Collaborate with core autonomy teams: motion planning, perception, and simulation

Requirements

What you’ll need

A B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science, Robotics or related technical field
In-depth knowledge of data structures and algorithms
Strong Python programming experience
Experience with operationalizing large-scale systems
Experience with at least one distributed data processing framework (Ray, Spark, Flink, etc)
Passionate about software quality and reliability
Nice to have:
C++
SQL
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
Experience with GPU-accelerated systems
Robotics domain experience/knowledge

Benefits

Comp & perks

401(k) plan with employer matching
16 weeks of paid parental leave
Wellness benefits
Commuter benefits match
Paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
11 paid holidays
Disability and basic life insurance
Family-forming assistance
Mental health program

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonC++SQLdata structuresalgorithmsdistributed data processingGPU-accelerated computinglarge-scale systemsrobot data pipelinesmetrics pipelines

Soft Skills

decision-makingcollaborationpassion for software qualityreliability