Senior Software Engineer, Event Streaming Systems

Here’s what your day-to-day might look like:

• Design, build and operate large-scale event streaming infrastructure that supports critical production workloads.

• Improve the reliability, scalability, observability and automation of Kafka, EventBus 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 EventBus, 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.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO THRIVE

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.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience contributing to Kafka or related open source distributed systems.

• Experience with Redpanda, WarpStream, 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.

WHY JOIN US?

At Deliveroo, you’ll do work that matters, solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace that’s constantly evolving.

We’re food lovers, problem solvers, community builders and more, brought together by a shared drive to make things better. Working here you can expect to:

🔧 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.

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We aim to create a fair process that lets your skills shine, our interview typically includes 3-4 stages. Explore our Engineering Interview Guide to help you feel confident at each stage.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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.

If you’re excited about making a real impact in a fast-moving marketplace and growing your career alongside ambitious, supportive teams, we’d love to hear from you!

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