Senior Software Engineer - DevOps

Job Overview

Join us in our mission to transform the way people shop and eat, where impact, innovation and growth drive everything we do. Our Engineering teams tackle complex technical challenges across a global, three-sided marketplace, building and scaling systems that serve millions of customers, riders and partners every day. From real-time logistics to resilient infrastructure and marketplace optimisation, we design, build and operate technology that powers Deliveroo’s growth at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer internal platforms: Write and maintain production-quality software (primarily in Go) to automate infrastructure and enhance developer workflows.


• Architect cloud systems: Design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable systems within AWS using cloud-native architecture principles.


• Scale CI/CD capabilities: Build and maintain robust pipelines using GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or Buildkite to streamline the path to production.


• Drive Automation: Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) to ensure environment consistency and eliminate manual toil.


• Enable Operational Excellence: Improve observability and reliability of our internal platforms while troubleshooting complex build and deployment issues.


• Technical Leadership: Partner with engineering teams to define best practices for deployment and cloud architecture, driving continuous improvement across our DevOps culture.

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating CI/CD systems using modern tools such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or Buildkite.


• Proven ability to write production-quality code, with proficiency in a language such as Go (or a strong desire to master it).


• Deep AWS knowledge, including core services, networking, IAM, and the design of scalable, secure cloud architectures.


• Demonstrated ownership of infrastructure as code and automated environment management at scale.


• A strong understanding of observability and reliability engineering, with the ability to debug complex, distributed systems.


• Collaborative mindset, with the ability to work effectively across multiple teams to influence technical standards and best practices.

About Deliveroo

At Deliveroo, you’ll do work that matters—solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace that’s constantly evolving. We’re food lovers, problem solvers, community builders and more, brought together by a shared drive to make things better.

Benefits

• Solve meaningful problems at real scale


• See your impact, fast


• Grow through challenge and ownership


• A culture built for builders


• Share in the success you help create