About the Team
This role is part of our commitment to increase the representation of women in technology at DoorDash Brazil. We strongly encourage candidates who identify as women to apply.
We are building an engineering team where women have equitable access to opportunity, leadership, and long-term career growth within our São Paulo hub.
DoorDash is building the world’s most reliable on-demand logistics platform. As part of our global expansion, we are investing heavily in Brazil and growing our engineering presence in São Paulo. This is a unique opportunity to join one of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing companies—while staying close to home.
We’re looking for Software Engineers interns who are excited to solve real-world problems at scale. You’ll work on product teams or platform teams that power our three-sided marketplace of Consumers, Dashers, and Merchants. From improving restaurant discovery to optimizing delivery logistics, you’ll help shape the experience of millions of users.
You’ll work alongside experienced engineers, product managers, and designers—many based in the U.S.—so fluency in English and strong collaboration skills are essential.
About the Role
At DoorDash, our product engineers implement and operate technological solutions to improve the experiences of our Consumers, Dashers and Merchants. 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 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 internship program will be hybrid with at least 1 day a week required to be in-person in our Sao Paulo office. You will be paired with a mentor to help you ramp up and get comfortable working at DoorDash!
You're excited about this opportunity because...
- 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
Here are some examples of past intern projects:
We’re excited about you because…
- You are pursuing a B.S Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- You are available for a August 2026 start date
- 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
- 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
- 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.
About DoorDash
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.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
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.
This position is open to candidates with disabilities. DoorDash welcomes applicants registered with the national autism registry (SisTEA) and others who seek an inclusive workplace.
If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.
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