Platform Engineer II

Platform Engineer II

Who We Are

Our ambition is to be the definitive food company, feeding people three times a day with great food from the World\’s best-loved restaurants, all with an unparalleled level of convenience.

From distributed computing to large-scale system design, complex algorithms to beautiful user interfaces, we have teams working on every step of the journey to ensure we continue to offer our customers a growing selection of choice at the best price with a fantastic level of service.

We work with thousands of restaurants worldwide, from renowned local gems to your favourite chains, allowing them to open up a new revenue stream and reach new customers. Our restaurant partners, riders and customers are as passionate about food as we are, and if you want to make an impact on millions of users by solving some of the biggest technical challenges at great scale, come on board and join the ride.

The Team

At Deliveroo we’re striving to build one of the world’s best engineering organisations.

We’re dedicated to building a collaborative and supportive culture. We set goals and objectives. We empower our engineers to find solutions to problems at great scale. We trust them to use their time wisely.

Our teams are solving unique and difficult problems at scale in an energetic and fast-paced environment. We’re growing incredibly quickly and we need experienced engineers to help us scale.

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer who can make significant contributions to the way we build, operate and run our production platform. This work will involve touching areas such as managing our cloud infrastructure, compute clusters, observability tooling, and our data stores. Deliveroo is growing rapidly and our infrastructure critically underpins this growth. Delivering a secure, reliable, highly available and performant cloud environment is a key focus for this role.

What you\’ll do?

As a Platform Engineer at Deliveroo, your individual work contributes to driving team-level goals and metrics. Occasionally you will lead work outside of the direct remit of your team benefitting other teams. You will report to managers and groups leads and together drive the success of an individual team.

Expectations

Technical Execution

• You will have a solid understanding of multiple services and their intersection with other parts of the business. Proficient in required tools, languages and external services relevant to their work

• The role will see you write, review and ship code affecting large parts of their company\’s systems and contributing to all parts of the project lifecycle required for the success of the team.

• Your work will also see you regularly deploy code into production systems, ensuring their production readiness and properly monitoring the ongoing health of those systems

Collaboration & Leadership

• Cooperates with all stakeholders of their team to deliver projects on time

• Participate in recruitment activities including leading interviews

Requirements

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

• Have grounding in a specific technical area in the platform space (eg. Containers, Kafka, Networking)

• Experience with infrastructure tooling, ideally Terraform

• A strong background in software engineering, preferably with Go and/or Python

• Demonstrated contributions to successful projects from inception to delivery

• Improving system design experience

• Extensive experience with AWS cloud computing

• (Optionally) Experience with datastores, ideally PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and/or Redis

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

Benefits And Diversity

At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. We offer multiple great benefits in areas including health, family, finance, community, convenience, growth, time away and relocation.

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.

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