Software Engineer, Backend - Unified Gateway
doordashcanada
Toronto, ON · Toronto
Posted Jul 10, 2026
- Full-time
- 313 Infrastructure Engineering
doordashcanada
Toronto, ON · Toronto
Posted Jul 10, 2026
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.
As a member of the Unified Gateway team, you'll build and maintain the API Gateway platform that sits at the front door of DoorDash's traffic — an HTTP-to-gRPC reverse proxy that accepts REST/JSON requests, translates them into Protocol Buffer messages, calls downstream gRPC services, and translates the responses back to clients. The platform empowers product engineers to declaratively define, test, deploy, and operate their API endpoints without standing up and managing their own edge services. It centrally handles authentication, authorization, request and response mapping, header propagation, encryption, and resilience, and powers experiences across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo spanning iOS, Android, and Web. By providing this robust platform, we deliver significant improvements in:
Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Base salary is localized according to employee work location.
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 for all regular employees, that includes paid time off, paid parental leave, wellness benefit and several paid holidays.
Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and basic life insurance, an RRSP including an employer match, and a mental health program, among others.
To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.
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 by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order 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.
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.
If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.