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.

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.

The 2026 internship program will be hosted in onsite at the Doordash office in Toronto, ON

• 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 - AMAs, game nights, cooking classes, etc
• Present your summer learnings during Demo Day at the end of the internship

• Collection of Summer 2022 Intern Projects
• Summer 2022 Intern Projects Cont.

• You are currently enrolled at a Canadian university 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 2026 to Summer 2027.
• You are available for a May or June 2026 start date. (Internships are hosted in Summer only)
• 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.
• You are excited about a hybrid summer work experience.

• At least 1 previous Software Engineering internship or equivalent relevant experience
• Ability to 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/organization, on-campus student organization leadership, technical teaching assistant roles, relevant extracurricular activities, or other technical experience.

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