Location: London Hybrid (3 days in the office)Who We AreOur ambition is to be the definitive food company, feeding people three times a day with great food from the World's best-loved restaurants, all with an unparalleled level of convenience.From distributed computing to large-scale system design, complex algorithms to beautiful user interfaces, we have teams working on every step of the journey to ensure we continue to offer our customers a growing selection of choice at the best price with a fantastic level of service.
We work with thousands of restaurants worldwide, from renowned local gems to your favourite chains, allowing them to open up a new revenue stream and reach new customers. Our restaurant partners, riders and customers are as passionate about food as we are, and if you want to make an impact on millions of users by solving some of the biggest technical challenges at great scale, come on board and join the ride.
The TeamAt Deliveroo we're striving to build one of the world's best engineering organisations.We're dedicated to building a collaborative and supportive culture. We set goals and objectives. We empower our engineers to find solutions to problems at great scale. We trust them to use their time wisely.Our teams are solving unique and difficult problems at scale in an energetic and fast-paced environment. We're growing incredibly quickly and we need experienced engineers to help us scale.
We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who can have significant influence on the way we build, operate and run our platform. This work will involve leading the implementation of Platform Engineering across our group, touching areas such as managing our cloud infrastructure, compute clusters, observability tooling, and our data stores. Deliveroo is growing rapidly and our infrastructure critically underpins this growth. Delivering a secure, reliable, highly available and performant cloud environment is a key focus for this role.
What you'll do?
As a Senior Platform Engineer at Deliveroo, your individual work contributes to driving team-level goals and metrics. Occasionally you will lead work outside of the direct remit of your team benefitting other teams. You will report to managers and groups leads and together drive the success of an individual team.
ExpectationsTechnical Execution
You will have a deep understanding of multiple services and their intersection with other parts of the business. Highly proficient in all tools, languages and external services relevant to their workThe role will see you writing and reviewing technical designs on behalf of their team and delivering code of any size or scope required for the success of the team.Your work will also see you lead on team project planning, foreseeing dependencies and risks, and setting a sustainable and incremental team pace.Collaboration & Leadership
You will lead the work of other engineers within the team and drive the success of the team this will include influencing the roadmap and direction of the team.The role also requires you to build cross-team relationships with adjacent teams (when relevant) to solve problems and deliver projectsLead engineering interviews to help guide the understanding of the Deliveroo bar for all lower levels which often requires contribution in other recruiting areas outside of interviewing.RequirementsWe want to emphasise that we don't expect you to meet all of the below but would love you to have experience in some of these areas.
Pride in readable, well-designed, well-tested solutionsHave a strong grounding in a specific technical area in the platform space (eg. Containers, Kafka, Networking)Extensive experience with infrastructure tooling, ideally TerraformA strong background in software engineering, preferably with Go and/or PythonProven ability to define and run projects from inception to deliveryProven system design experienceImproving leadership skills, including coaching, team-building and generally supporting peers and colleaguesExtensive experience with AWS cloud computing(Optionally) Proven ability to coordinate technical projects across multiple teams(Optionally) Experience with datastores, ideally PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and/or Redis(Optionally) Experience of working closely and building relationships with customer engineering groupsBenefits And DiversityAt Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. We offer multiple great benefits in areas including health, family, finance, community, convenience, growth, time away and relocation.
We believe a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are - your gender, race, sexuality, religion or a secret aversion to coriander.
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