Staff Software Engineer - Event Streaming & Kafka Platform

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

Job summary

Deliveroo in London is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Event Streaming Systems team. You will help define the long-term direction of our messaging platforms, lead high-impact initiatives and raise reliability and scalability for Tier-0 infrastructure.

You’ll mentor engineers, collaborate with cross-functional partners across Deliveroo, DoorDash and Wolt, and build durable, observable systems using Kafka and EventBus.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating distributed systems in production.
• Strong knowledge of messaging and streaming platforms.
• Ability to lead multi-engineer initiatives and shape roadmaps.
• Decision-making in ambiguous situations with data and reliability focus.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision and roadmap for our event streaming and messaging platforms, balancing reliability, scalability, cost, operability and developer experience.
• Lead team-level and cross-team initiatives for Kafka, EventBus and related streaming infrastructure, from ambiguous problem definition through architecture, delivery, rollout and adoption.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor for Kafka, messaging, storage-adjacent and DBRE-related platform decisions across Deliveroo, DoorDash and Wolt.
• Design durable, extensible systems and platform capabilities that can be leveraged by other engineers and teams, reducing duplicated effort and operational risk.
• Lead the resolution of complex distributed systems problems, including reliability incidents, performance bottlenecks, capacity constraints, data-safety risks and production-operability gaps.
• Raise the operational excellence bar for Tier-0 infrastructure through observability, automation, incident response, runbooks, operational readiness and continuous improvement.
• Proactively build alignment with partner teams, including EventBus, Storage, DBRE, SRE, Data Platform and Core Infrastructure, shaping joint goals and mitigating cross-org delivery risks.
• Mentor and grow engineers through technical guidance, design, feedback, code review, incident review facilitation and knowledge-sharing across the engineering community.
• Evaluate emerging streaming, storage and automation technologies, including AI-enabled operational tooling where appropriate, and champion pragmatic adoption where they can materially improve quality, velocity or efficiency.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Go

Python

Linux

Observability

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Cross-team leadership

Tools

Kafka

EventBus

Redpanda

WarpStream

AutoMQ

Pulsar

Job description

Deliveroo in London is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Event Streaming Systems team. You will help define the long-term direction of our messaging platforms, lead high-impact initiatives and raise reliability and scalability for Tier-0 infrastructure.

You’ll mentor engineers, collaborate with cross-functional partners across Deliveroo, DoorDash and Wolt, and build durable, observable systems using Kafka and EventBus.