Senior Platform Engineer, Developer Platform

Our Global Structure Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash, bringing together teams with even greater reach, scale, and ambition. Depending on your role, you may collaborate with teammates, systems, and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Together, we're unlocking new possibilities as one global team. Join us in our mission to transform the way people shop and eat, where impact, innovation and growth drive everything we do. Our Engineering teams tackle complex technical challenges across a global, three-sided marketplace, building and scaling systems that serve millions of customers, riders and partners every day. We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our London team.This is a hybrid role. Our global business is growing rapidly and global infrastructure critically underpins this growth. In this role, you'll help us evolve a secure, stable, highly available and performant platform ecosystem to support this business growth for years into the future. Get to know our Engineering team — what drives us, how we work, and what you can expect. What You'll Be Doing You'll be joining the Developer Platform group. The group builds the core systems, tools, and environments that empower engineers to ship high-quality capabilities quickly and confidently. We own the developer experience for DoorDash's primary monorepo, maintain the Bazel-based build ecosystem, evolve development environments for engineers & agents alike, and manage IDEs and agentic tooling. Our mission is to remove friction, improve iteration speed, and ensure a consistent, reliable experience across every stage of DoorDash's software development lifecycle. Here's what your day-to-day might look like: You are a Project Owner who can understand customer problems and translate objectives into well defined and scoped sub-problems for yourself and peers. You set a high bar for craftsmanship, reliability, and scalability, and lead by example in execution. You are capable of making long term vs short term trade-offs and design high-quality, durable solutions You have effective project management skills and can manage moderate levels of ambiguity. You take ownership of areas within your team's charter and make improvements that deliver real impact for your customers and peers. You identify gaps and provide recommendations to your cross-functional partners with regularity. You are a role model within your own team, showing up as an empathetic and influential teacher and mentor. What You'll Need to Thrive Our ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others: A strong background in software engineering, preferably with Go and/or Python Extensive experience with infrastructure tooling, ideally Terraform Extensive experience with managing AWS cloud environments Demonstrated ability to contribute to the direction of a technical domain in the platform space (eg. Container Orchestration, Kafka, Build Systems, Observability) Background in building AI-assisted developer tools or integrating LLM-backed Why Join Us? At Deliveroo, you'll do work that matters, solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace that's constantly evolving. We're food lovers, problem solvers, community builders and more, brought together by a shared drive to make things better. Working here you can expect to: 🔧 Solve meaningful problems at real scale Work on a complex, always-on marketplace that impacts millions every day. 🌱 See your impact, fast Ship, test and improve ideas quickly in a low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment. 🧠Grow through challenge and ownership Take on big, ambiguous problems and accelerate your career with strong support. 🌎A culture built for builders High standards, collaboration, flexible working and continuous learning. 💰 Share in the success you help create Competitive salary and equity options, so you're rewarded for the impact you make. ➡️ Want a deeper look at how we build? Check out our Tech Blog. We aim to create a fair process that lets your skills shine—our interview typically includes 3-4 stages. Explore our Engineering Interview Guide here to help you feel confident at each stage. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion At Deliveroo, we know that a great workplace reflects the world around us and that true diversity and inclusion make us stronger, more creative, and better at what we do. We're committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel they belong. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion, or belief. If you have a disability or long-term health condition and need support to apply for one of our roles, or require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, you'll have the opportunity to let us know once you've submitted your application. We'll share details on how to request support so we can ensure you have a fair and equitable experience. If you're excited about making a real impact in a fast-moving marketplace and growing your career alongside ambitious, supportive teams, we'd love to hear from you! Beware of recruitment scams: DASH Brands will never ask you to pay money or share sensitive financial information during hiring — learn more about DASH Brands' legitimate recruiting process at careersatdoordash.com/recruitment-scam-awareness . Find Jobs in United Kingdom on Arbeitnow