Staff Platform Engineer (DevEx) in London

Location: London - The River Building HQ

Employment Type: Full time

Department: Deliveroo Cost Center Hierarchy Technology Technology Engineering Engineering (Infra) Engineering (Infra)

About the team: The Local DevEx team within the Foundations group empowers engineers to develop, test, and ship high-quality services quickly and confidently. We own and evolve the local developer experience across the DoorDash group of companies via a paved-path DevContainers-based development platform for engineers & agentic workflows, with related IDE tooling. The team’s mission is to enable engineers across the engineering pillars of Quality, Velocity and Efficiency by building framework-level tooling and developer flows that scale across the company.

About the role: As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will be recognised as an expert in at least one relevant technical area and be responsible for solutions that deliver group-level (multiple team) outcomes. You will lead technical direction for at least 1 team, remove deep technical blockers across teams, and mentor other engineers. You will report to senior managers and as leads for the group, work together to deliver wide impact.

What you’ll be doing:

• Technical Leadership: You will define the technical solutions for important business problems and understand the context in which large company decisions are made, including; Define and own the technical architecture for local and remote dev flows: including devcontainers, IDE remote backends, and build seamless integration points into our engineering ecosystem. Design and continuously improve the paved-path developer journeys: time-to-first-change, onboarding flows (MSC distribution, Tailscale setup), IDE remote flows, and UX for day-to-day developer tasks. Instrument and iterate based on developer metrics and feedback. Own the integration strategy for remote execution (BuildBuddy or equivalent), accelerate development on the company monorepo (Pedregal). Define caching/invalidation approaches and CI/remote-exec interactions to keep developer loops fast and predictable. Your work will also include forecasting and managing project timelines and risks, and setting a sustainable and incremental team pace.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Align non-adjacent teams and disciplines (including Product, Security, Core Infrastructure and Product Engineering) to resolve unstructured and ambiguous challenges. This extends to coaching other folks across all levels and supporting up-and-coming leaders in the team. Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, run technical design reviews, and raise the engineering bar through code reviews and architectural guidance. Lead engineering interviews and help set the bar for hiring. Help onboard senior engineers and contribute to interview loops and hiring decisions.

Requirements:

• You are recognised as deeply experienced in developer platforms or related infra: devcontainers, remote development, remote IDE backends, or developer workstation tooling. You’re sought out for advice and design reviews by multiple teams.
• Demonstrated shipping production systems and delivering cross-team initiatives that impact group goals. Comfortable owning end-to-end technical delivery from design to production.
• Hands-on experience with CLI/tooling platforms and developer UX; practical experience with languages and tooling used for developer tooling (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript) and infra as code (Terraform).
• Practical experience with JetBrains remote backend flows or Codespaces/Codeserver-style products.
• Experience with BuildBuddy or remote build/execution systems, large cache architectures, or Firecracker/lightweight VM snapshotting.
• Experience integrating LLM/AI tooling into developer flows (on-device or code-local assistants such as Claude Code), including considerations for privacy, auditability and safe defaults.
• Excellent communicator who can influence Product and senior stakeholders and align multiple non-adjacent teams.
• Experience of working closely and building relationships with customer engineering groups.

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.