3 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build and operate large-scale event streaming infrastructure for critical production workloads.
- Improve the reliability, scalability, observability and automation of Kafka, EventBus and related streaming platforms.
- Debug distributed systems issues involving performance bottlenecks, capacity constraints and production reliability.
- Build infrastructure automation and self-healing capabilities to reduce operational toil and improve platform resilience.
- Contribute to incident response, operational readiness and continuous improvement for Tier-0 infrastructure.
- Collaborate with EventBus, Storage, SRE, Data Platform and Core Infrastructure teams across US and EU regions.
- Help shape the long-term architecture and evolution of the event streaming platform.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience building or operating distributed systems in production.
- Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming systems as a platform, infrastructure service or critical production dependency.
- Strong coding ability in Java, Go, Python or similar languages focused 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 across platform, infrastructure and product engineering teams.
- Experience contributing to Kafka or related open source distributed systems is desirable.
- Experience with Redpanda, WarpStream, AutoMQ, Pulsar or similar streaming technologies is desirable.
- Experience with JVM tuning, broker tuning, partition management or Cruise Control is desirable.
- Experience with tiered storage, diskless streaming architectures, multi-region event streaming platforms or Tier-0 infrastructure at large scale is desirable.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement
- Flexible working and continuous learning
- Supportive, high-ownership environment
- Equity options
- Accessibility accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process
About Deliveroo
Deliveroo is an award-winning delivery service founded in 2013 by William Shu and Greg Orlowski. Deliveroo works with approximately 176,000 best-loved restaurants and grocery partners, as well as around 150,000 riders to provide the best food delivery experience in the world. Deliveroo is headquartered in London, with offices around the globe. Deliveroo operates across 9 markets, including Belgium, France, Italy, Ireland, Qatar, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and the United Kingdom.