Senior Software Engineer, Event Streaming Systems

Senior Software Engineer, Event Streaming Systems

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.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. This is a hybrid role. In this role, you’ll help us build and operate the event streaming infrastructure that powers business-critical workflows across Deliveroo, Door Dash and Wolt.

Get to know our Engineering team, what drives us, how we work, and what you can expect.

You’ll be joining the Event Streaming Systems team within the broader Storage organisation. The team builds and operates highly reliable, scalable and efficient event streaming infrastructure, including Kafka, Event Streaming abstractions (internally called Event Bus) and future streaming platform technologies. These systems support Tier-0 workflows and are foundational to how engineering teams build reliable, event-driven products at scale.

• Design, build and operate large-scale event streaming infrastructure that supports critical production workloads.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, observability and automation of Kafka, Event Bus and related streaming platforms.
• Debug complex distributed systems issues, including performance bottlenecks, capacity constraints and production reliability challenges.
• Build infrastructure automation and self-healing capabilities that reduce operational toil and improve platform resilience.
• Contribute to incident response, operational readiness and continuous improvement for Tier-0 infrastructure.
• Partner closely with Event Bus, Storage, SRE, Data Platform and Core Infrastructure teams across US and EU regions.
• Help shape the long-term architecture and evolution of Deliveroo’s event streaming platform.

Our ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others:

• Strong hands-on experience building or operating distributed systems in production.
• Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming systems, either as a platform, infrastructure service or critical production dependency.
• Strong coding ability in Java, Go, Python or similar languages, with a focus on reliable, maintainable production systems.
• Experience operating scalable production infrastructure, including debugging, troubleshooting and improving reliability.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, observability, capacity management and operational excellence.
• Good fundamentals in Linux, networking and JVM-based systems, or curiosity to deepen expertise in these areas.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across platform, infrastructure and product engineering teams.

• Experience contributing to Kafka or related open source distributed systems.
• Experience with Redpanda, Warp Stream, AutoMQ, Pulsar or similar streaming technologies.
• Experience with JVM tuning, broker tuning, partition management or Cruise Control.
• Experience with tiered storage, diskless streaming architectures or multi-region event streaming platforms.
• Experience operating Tier-0 infrastructure at large scale.

Solve meaningful problems at real scale

Work on a complex, always-on marketplace that impacts millions every day.

See your impact, fast

Ship, test and improve ideas quickly in a low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment.

Grow through challenge and ownership

Take on big, ambiguous problems and accelerate your career with strong support.

A culture built for builders

High standards, collaboration, flexible working and continuous learning.

Share in the success you help create

Competitive salary and equity options, so you’re rewarded for the impact you make.

At Deliveroo, we know that a great workplace reflects the world around us and that true diversity and inclusion make us stronger, more creative, and better at what we do. We’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel they belong.

We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion, or belief.

If you have a disability or long-term health condition and need support to apply for one of our roles, or require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, you’ll have the opportunity to let us know once you’ve submitted your application. We’ll share details on how to request support so we can ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.