At Deliveroo, our mission is to transform the way you shop and eat, bringing the neighbourhood to your door. We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer (DevEx) to be recognized as an expert and lead the technical solutions that deliver group-level outcomes. In this role, you'll be responsible for technical direction, removing deep technical blockers, and mentoring engineers.
What You'll Do
- Define and own the technical architecture for local and remote dev flows, including devcontainers, IDE remote backends, and integration points into the engineering ecosystem.
- Design and continuously improve paved-path developer journeys: time-to-first-change, onboarding flows, 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 (e.g., BuildBuddy) to accelerate development on the company monorepo.
- Define caching/invalidation approaches and CI/remote-exec interactions to keep developer loops fast and predictable.
- Forecast and manage project timelines and risks, and set a sustainable team pace.
- Align non-adjacent teams and disciplines (Product, Security, Core Infrastructure, Product Engineering) to resolve unstructured challenges.
- Coach and mentor other folks across all levels and support up-and-coming leaders.
- 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, including onboarding senior engineers and contributing to interview loops.
What We're Looking For
- Deeply experienced in developer platforms or related infra: devcontainers, remote development, remote IDE backends, or developer workstation tooling.
- 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.
Technical Stack
- Languages: Go, Python, TypeScript
- Infrastructure: Terraform
- Tools: BuildBuddy, Firecracker
Team & Environment
Part of the Local DevEx team within the Foundations group. You will report to senior managers.
Benefits & Compensation
- Healthcare
- Well-being
- Parental leave
- Pensions
- Generous annual leave allowances
- Time off to support a charitable cause
We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of our hiring process.
