Senior Platform Engineer (Edge)

Location: London, the UK - Hybrid (3 days from the office)

The Edge team within Foundations underpins the performance, reliability and security of our north/south traffic at the boundary between our global systems and the outside world. The team’s scope includes global traffic routing, content delivery networks, proxies, load-balancing, DNS/routing, network security patterns (WAFs, rate limiting, DDoS mitigation), and internet observability at global scale. You’ll work closely with Product Engineering, Security, SRE and senior engineers across Deliveroo to ensure our traffic path is fast, resilient and secure.

As a Senior Engineer on Edge, you are a knowledgeable and experienced individual contributor whose work will drive team-level goals and metrics. You’ll take ownership of end-to-end projects and occasionally lead work that benefits other teams.

Technical Delivery

• Deliver end-to-end projects within the Edge domain: design, implement, test and operate systems that handle production traffic reliably and at low latency.

• Work on traffic-critical initiatives such as multi-region routing, intelligent failover, traffic policy, edge-to-mesh optimisation, CDN & proxy tuning, and DNS/routing improvements.

• Design robust, well-documented technical solutions and write TDDs / design docs that communicate trade-offs and operational considerations.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Lead and coordinate the implementation work: break down projects, guide design and implementation choices, and partner with adjacent teams (SRE, Security, Product) to de-risk delivery.

• Works with their team and adjacent teams (when relevant) to deliver projects and solve problems

• Own operational readiness for services you ship: define SLOs, ensure high-signal monitoring and low-noise alerting, maintain runbooks, and participate in on-call rotations and post-incident learning.

Team Building

• Mentor more junior engineers, provide constructive code and design reviews, and help raise the engineering bar within the team

We 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 solutions and proven ability to define and run projects from inception to delivery

• Hands-on experience with Edge technologies and networking: CDNs (Cloudflare/Fastly), proxies (Nginx/HAProxy), ALB/ELB, DNS (Route53) and VPC routing. We are looking for someone who knows what good looks like and wants to bring that experience to DoorDash

• Strong technical foundation in distributed systems, platform/infrastructure engineering, cloud networking and production-grade services. Comfortable reviewing designs/TDDs and contributing code when needed.

• Experience in low-latency, high-throughput systems and familiarity with infrastructure tooling (Terraform) and languages used by the company (e.g., Go).

• Experience of working closely and building relationships with customer engineering groups

• Experience driving operational excellence (SLOs, on-call, runbooks, post-incident reviews).

• Excellent communication skills and a track record of aligning multiple teams to solve ambiguous, cross-team problems.

Why Deliveroo

Our mission is to transform the way you shop and eat, bringing the neighbourhood to your door by connecting consumers, restaurants, shops and riders. We are transforming the way the world eats and shops by making access to food and products more convenient and enjoyable. We give people the opportunity to buy what they want, as they want it, when and where they want it.

We are a technology-driven company at the forefront of the most rapidly expanding industry in the world. We are still a small team, making a very large impact, looking to answer some of the most interesting questions out there. We move fast, value autonomy and ownership, and we are always looking for new ideas.

Workplace & Benefits

At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. Benefits differ by country, but we offer many benefits in areas including healthcare, well-being, parental leave, pensions, and generous annual leave allowances, including time off to support a charitable cause of your choice. Benefits are country-specific, please ask your recruiter for more information.

Diversity

At Deliveroo, 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. All you need is a passion for (most) food and a desire to be part of one of the fastest-growing businesses in a rapidly growing industry.

We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of our hiring process. We recognise that some candidates may require adjustments to apply for a position or fairly participate in the interview process. If you require any adjustments, please don't hesitate to let us know. We will make every effort to provide the necessary adjustments to ensure you have an equitable opportunity to succeed.