Hybrid Platform Engineer: EU Traffic (Edge & Network)

Academic Key; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Deliveroo is hiring a Software Platform Engineer for EU Traffic in London. You will design and build large-scale distributed systems that are latency-sensitive, manage edge configurations and service-to-service authentication, and ensure security across multiple regions.

You will troubleshoot production issues, collaborate with platform and product engineers, and contribute to automation and on-call incident response. Hybrid work from London with exciting growth at a global scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering/SRE
• Experience operating edge technologies at scale, such as CDN, WAF, proxy layers, and DNS
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals like TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, Load Balancing
• Background working on and debugging high-QPS or latency-sensitive systems
• You’re curious, collaborative, and comfortable making progress in ambiguity
• You work AI-first: you delegate to and orchestrate coding agents across design, implementation, testing, incident response, and releases

Responsibilities

• Design and build large-scale distributed systems that are high RPS and latency sensitive
• Troubleshoot, debug, and fix issues that affect production and maintain our SLAs
• Work collaboratively with other platform and product engineers to deliver on feature requests and solve their problems
• Find ways to improve the team’s productivity and operational capabilities through automation, AI tools, and other avenues
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation and help lead production investigations and incidents
• Mentor and learn from teammates through design reviews, pairing, and incident reviews

Skills

Go

C++

Python

Rust

AI tools

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Envoy

Istio

Linkerd

Terraform

ArgoCD

Helm

Atlantis

Job description

Deliveroo is hiring a Software Platform Engineer for EU Traffic in London. You will design and build large-scale distributed systems that are latency-sensitive, manage edge configurations and service-to-service authentication, and ensure security across multiple regions.

You will troubleshoot production issues, collaborate with platform and product engineers, and contribute to automation and on-call incident response. Hybrid work from London with exciting growth at a global scale.