Deliveroo - Staff Platform Engineer (DevEx)
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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
Responsibilities
• 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.
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.
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