Senior Platform Engineer

A food delivery technology company connecting customers with the world's best-loved restaurants through their platform.
Cloud
Senior Software Engineer
Hybrid
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS · Consumer

Description For Senior Platform Engineer

Deliveroo, a leading food delivery technology company, is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their rapidly growing engineering organization. The role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of food delivery technology at scale. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of managing and implementing critical infrastructure that powers thousands of restaurants and millions of customers worldwide.

The position involves leading Platform Engineering initiatives across the organization, focusing on cloud infrastructure, compute clusters, observability tooling, and data stores. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, and various programming languages like Go and Python. The role requires both technical expertise and leadership skills, as you'll be guiding team members and collaborating across departments.

This is an ideal opportunity for experienced engineers who want to solve complex technical challenges at scale while working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You'll be part of a company that values diversity, promotes work-life balance, and offers comprehensive benefits including health, family, and financial packages.

The hybrid working model (3 days in office) in London provides flexibility while maintaining strong team collaboration. You'll contribute to building one of the world's best engineering organizations while helping Deliveroo achieve its ambition of becoming the definitive food company. If you're passionate about large-scale system design, distributed computing, and want to make a real impact on millions of users' daily lives, this role offers the perfect blend of technical challenges and growth opportunities.

Last updated 3 days ago

Responsibilities For Senior Platform Engineer

  • Lead implementation of Platform Engineering across the group
  • Manage cloud infrastructure, compute clusters, observability tooling, and data stores
  • Deliver secure, reliable, highly available and performant cloud environment
  • Write and review technical designs
  • Lead team project planning and set sustainable team pace
  • Lead work of other engineers within the team
  • Build cross-team relationships
  • Lead engineering interviews

Requirements For Senior Platform Engineer

Go
Python
PostgreSQL
Redis
Kubernetes
Kafka
  • Pride in readable, well-designed, well-tested solutions
  • Strong grounding in platform space (Containers, Kafka, Networking)
  • Extensive experience with infrastructure tooling, preferably Terraform
  • Strong background in software engineering with Go and/or Python
  • Proven ability to define and run projects from inception to delivery
  • Proven system design experience
  • Leadership skills including coaching and team-building
  • Extensive experience with AWS cloud computing

Benefits For Senior Platform Engineer

Medical Insurance
Parental Leave
Relocation Benefits
  • Health benefits
  • Family benefits
  • Financial benefits
  • Community benefits
  • Growth opportunities
  • Time away benefits
  • Relocation benefits

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