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, and 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 choices 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 a 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 in an energetic and fast-paced environment. We’re growing incredibly quickly and we need experienced engineers to help us scale.

Our Kafka ecosystem powers hundreds of services and enables hundreds of engineers to move quickly, efficiently and safely. We use a variety of streaming technologies and as our platform grows, we need a Platform Engineer who can help build, operate, and administer our messaging infrastructure to ensure we grow reliably, cost effectively, and quickly.

Responsibilities

• Help design, build and administer our central messaging platform, built on top of Kafka (AWS managed), using site reliability engineering best practices.
• Work within a small, passionate team who care deeply about quality solutions and maturing our messaging platform
• Ensure our central Kafka architecture is consistently performant and ready to scale as we continue seeing larger and larger order volumes. 
• Develop best practices, tools, and libraries to make the Kafka ecosystem easier to use and more reliable for product teams.
• Adopt and promote modern automated “Self Service” paradigms.
• Perform proof-of-concept work for new tools and components.
• Help troubleshoot Kafka issues.

Requirements

• A genuine interest in distributed systems and event-driven architecture
• Extensive system design experience
• Experience with cloud computing infrastructure, ideally AWS

Nice-to-haves

• History of implementation, configuration, and support of a modern messaging platform with Kafka
• Experience with messaging ecosystem technologies such as Flink and Spark

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. All you need is a desire to be part of one of the fastest growing startups around.