Senior Traffic Platform Engineer

Deliveroo PLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Deliveroo PLC is seeking experienced software engineers to join the EU-Traffic team. Based in London with hybrid work, you will help build the next generation of DoorDash/Deliveroo/Wolt traffic platforms, focusing on edge configuration, service mesh security, and scalable infrastructure.

You will design distributed systems, improve reliability, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-performance features while pushing AI-assisted development and automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering/SRE.
• Experience with edge technologies at scale: CDN, WAF, proxies, DNS.
• Strong grasp of TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, and Load Balancing.

Responsibilities

• Design and build large-scale distributed systems with high RPS and latency sensitivity.
• Troubleshoot, debug and fix production issues to uphold SLAs.
• Collaborate with platform and product engineers to deliver features.
• Mentor teammates and engage in incident reviews and design reviews.

Skills

5+ yrs exp

Networking

Edge tech

SRE/Infra

AI tooling

Tools

Go

C++

Python

Rust

AWS

Kubernetes

Envoy Istio Linkerd

Terraform

ArgoCD

Helm

Atlantis

gRPC

xDS

Job description

Deliveroo PLC is seeking experienced software engineers to join the EU-Traffic team. Based in London with hybrid work, you will help build the next generation of DoorDash/Deliveroo/Wolt traffic platforms, focusing on edge configuration, service mesh security, and scalable infrastructure.

You will design distributed systems, improve reliability, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-performance features while pushing AI-assisted development and automation.