Senior Platform Engineer, Developer Platform
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