Job Overview
Location
London - The River Building HQ
Job Type
Full-time
Category
DevOps
Date Posted
June 4, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead and grow a team of infrastructure engineers responsible for building and operating Kafka, EventBus (Deliveroo’s internal event streaming abstraction), and other event streaming platform technologies.
- • Drive delivery of key streaming platform initiatives that support Tier-0 business-critical workflows across Deliveroo, DoorDash, and Wolt, ensuring reliability, scalability, and long-term evolution.
- • Partner with infrastructure and engineering leaders across Deliveroo, DoorDash, and Wolt to define and align streaming strategy, roadmap, and technical direction.
- • Improve scalability, observability, automation, and reliability of Tier-0 event streaming systems that underpin real-time logistics, marketplace optimization, and other core functions.
- • Foster operational excellence through incident management, postmortems, and continuous improvement processes for high-availability distributed systems.
- • Hire, mentor, and develop engineering talent while cultivating a high-performing, inclusive team culture with clear expectations and growth pathways.
- • Contribute to architecture reviews, design decisions, and technical evaluations for large-scale distributed systems used across global engineering teams.
- • Operate and enhance event streaming infrastructure that serves millions of customers, riders, and partners daily in a three-sided marketplace.
- • Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure event streaming systems meet the needs of product, data, and infrastructure teams building event-driven applications.
- • Maintain and evolve internal event streaming abstractions and platforms to reduce complexity and increase adoption across engineering organizations.
- • Ensure systems are resilient, observable, and automated, with strong monitoring, alerting, and self-healing capabilities.
- • Balance short-term operational demands with long-term platform investments to sustainably scale event streaming capabilities.
- • Communicate technical direction and progress clearly to engineering leaders, stakeholders, and cross-regional teams across Deliveroo, DoorDash, and Wolt.
- • Support the adoption of event-driven architectures by providing guidance, documentation, and tooling to engineering teams building on the platform.
- • Champion reliability engineering practices, including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning for critical streaming infrastructure.
- • Stay current with industry trends and evaluate emerging event streaming technologies to inform platform evolution.
🎯 Requirements
- • Experience leading streaming infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems engineering teams.
- • Experience with Kafka or large-scale event streaming systems.
- • Strong technical depth in scalable production systems, with a track record of operating high-reliability infrastructure.
- • Proven ability to hire, mentor, and grow engineers while building a strong team culture.
- • Demonstrated ability to drive execution across complex, cross-functional technical initiatives with multiple stakeholders.
- • Strong operational excellence mindset, including incident leadership, observability, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive salary and equity options, so you’re rewarded for the impact you make.
- • Solve meaningful problems at real scale on a complex, always-on marketplace impacting millions daily.
- • See your impact fast in a low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment.
- • Grow through challenge and ownership with strong support for career acceleration.
- • Work in a culture built for builders with high standards, collaboration, flexible working, and continuous learning.
- • Opportunity to collaborate with teams across Deliveroo, DoorDash, and Wolt as part of a global organization.
Skills & Technologies
Kafka
Hybrid
About Deliveroo Holdings plc
Deliveroo operates an online food-delivery marketplace connecting consumers with restaurants and grocery retailers through a logistics network of riders. Founded in 2013 in London, the platform processes orders via mobile and web, manages dispatch, and provides data analytics to partners. Revenue comes from commissions, delivery fees, and subscription memberships. It serves urban markets across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East, holding licenses as a technology intermediary and courier service provider.
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