You will report to the Engineering Manager of the EU-Traffic Team within the Infrastructure organization. This role is hybrid working from London.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
Design and build large-scale distributed systems that are high RPS and latency sensitive
Troubleshoot, debug, and fix issues that affect production and maintain our SLAs
Work collaboratively with other platform and product engineers to deliver on feature requests and solve their problems
Find ways to improve the team’s productivity and operational capabilities through the use of automation, AI tools, and other avenues
Participate in a shared on-call rotation and help lead production investigations and incidents, with support from teammates
Mentor and learn from teammates through design reviews, pairing, and incident reviews
We’re excited about you because…
You have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering/SRE
Experience operating edge technologies at scale, such as CDN, WAF, proxy layers, and DNS
Solid understanding of networking fundamentals like TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, Load Balancing
Background working on and debugging high-QPS or latency-sensitive systems
You’re curious, collaborative, and comfortable making progress in ambiguity
You work AI-first: you delegate to and orchestrate coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) across design, implementation, testing, incident response, and releases
If you don’t meet every requirement but are excited about this work, we’d still love to hear from you.
Bonus points if you…
Experience with programming languages like Go, C++, Python or Rust
Experience with AWS, especially with networking primitives like LBs, Privatelink, etc. and Kubernetes or other container management tool
Experience with service mesh technologies such as Envoy, Istio or Linkerd
Familiarity with xDS or control plane architectures
Experience building RPC frameworks or client-side networking libraries
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling like Terraform
Experience with Gitops delivery tooling such as ArgoCD, Helm, Atlantis.
Track record of sharing prompts, tooling, and practices that make a whole team faster with AI
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!
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