Software Engineer Intern

About the Team

DoorDash is building the world's most reliable on-demand logistics engine for delivery. We're looking for experienced engineers to join our fast-growing engineering team to help us develop a 24x7 global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash's three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers.

About the Role

At DoorDash, our product engineers implement and operate technological solutions to improve the experiences of our merchants, dashers, and consumers. From creating beautiful, user-friendly flows to crafting scalable backend architectures, we strive to deliver reliant, performant technology that delights our customers.

We believe interns are essential to our mission of attracting and retaining top talent. During our 12-week Software Engineer internship, interns are completely immersed in their teams and will have the opportunity to develop, maintain, and ship products. As an intern, you will directly impact our business by collaborating with your team to solve real problems for our customers.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. to be considered for this position. F-1 students are eligible if they are using Curricular Practical Training (CPT). DoorDash does not support students on J-1 visas at this time.

The 2027 internship program will be hosted in person at a DoorDash office in one of the following locations: New York, San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Los Angeles, and Seattle. You will have an opportunity to select your preferred location(s) during the application process.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Develop, maintain, and ship technical elements with the support of your mentor, manager, and team members.
• Act on feedback, coaching, and mentorship from your mentor and team members.
• Actively learn about the elements to which you contribute.
• Make a direct impact on our business by collaborating with your team to solve problems for our customers.
• Participate in intern programming: Leadership Speaker series, social events, virtually and in-person.
• Present your summer learnings during a final presentation at the end of the internship.
• You are excited about an in-person summer work experience.

Here are some examples of past intern projects:

• Collection of Summer 2024 Intern Projects
• Summer 2024 Intern Projects Cont.

We're excited about you because…

You are pursuing a B.S. or M.S. Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, have no more than 2 years of full-time work experience, and are graduating between Fall 2027 to Summer 2028. You are available for a May or June 2027 start date (Internships are only hosted during the Summer).

• You have experience working with databases (e.g., AWS, SQL, etc.).
• You have a solid understanding of algorithms and data structures.
• You have proficient experience working with at least 1 object-oriented programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Kotlin, etc.).
• You have experience writing clean code, working with version control, and doing unit testing.

Preferred but not required

• At least 1 previous Software Engineering internship or equivalent relevant experience.
• Curiosity about and experience using AI-powered tools to support software development, problem solving, and learning, with an understanding of how to evaluate outputs and use these tools responsibly.
• Ability to analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various systems.
• Excited to develop, release, and run large-scale web applications.
• Experience with solutions for systems monitoring, live deployments, and continuous integration.
• Experience with real-time technology problems.
• Experience working with service-oriented architecture, writing APIs, and designing systems.
• Participation in project or research-based technical work, hackathons, technical conferences/organizations, on-campus student organization leadership, technical teaching assistant roles, relevant extracurricular activities, or other technical experience.