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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer, Proactive Security - **Company:** Roofoods Ltd T/a Deliveroo - **Location:** London, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Software Design Documents, Distributed Systems, Graph Database, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Remote Access Technology, Software Engineering, Tokenization, Large Language Models, Kotlin, Terraform, Golang - **Published:** August 6, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/engineer-security/roofoods-ltd-t-a-deliveroo-job107802877 ## About the Role * Able to demonstrate a track record of driving improvements to a company's infrastructure security posture. * Breadth of technical experience across various infrastructure and security areas running in large production environments. * Highly skilled in distributed systems and platforms development using program languages such as Java/Scala/Kotlin, Golang, or Python. * Strong experience with infrastructure as a code tooling like Terraform. * Expertise with cloud infrastructure and management in AWS. * Experience solving complex, systemic issues that require creative thinking and solutions. * Exceptional analytical and investigative abilities with hands-on experience leading root cause analysis. * Excellent verbal and written communication skills to review design documents with respect to cloud infrastructure, security and engineering personnel. * Must be comfortable regularly exercising discretion and independent judgment in performing job duties, including evaluating options, making informed decisions, and determining appropriate courses of action within the scope of assigned responsibilities with minimal oversight. ## Description Our London based Security Engineering team is looking for a Software Engineer to lead the design, development and operation of security services within Deliveroo's Product and Cloud Security domains. You will be a part of our inclusive, collaborative global team responsible for building " security paved paths " to ensure a safe, reliable and resilient delivery network. This is a London based position reporting directly to the European Senior Manager of our Security Engineering team based in London. What You'll Need to Thrive * Build and maintain core security products, including but not limited to Remote Access Management, Secrets Management, Tokenization, Encryption and Knowledge Graphs, Access Control at global scale. * Partner cross-functionally with Core Infrastructure, Product Engineering, Legal, Security teams and Vendor Partners to build "paved paths" that provide actionable feedback to embed secure design practices into the product and infrastructure development process. * Lead the technical direction and roadmap for your assigned area of ownership. * Build and maintain high Operational Excellence (OE) to ensure we operate T0 services with excellence, rigor and durable standards to ensure minimal to no downtime. * Participate in on-call rotation and promptly respond to on-call events with urgency and rigor. * Manage the lifecycle of security product feature requests and improvements full life-cycle from triage, validation, design, testing, and implementation. * Influence and drive improvements to engineering standards, leverage advancements and LLMs to improve productivity and velocity. * Mentor and coach earlier career engineers, setting and enforcing high standards for Operational Excellence and Software Engineering. ## Related Videos - [Remote Driving on Plant Grounds with State-of-the-Art Cloud Technologies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/251-remote-driving-on-plant-grounds-with-state-of-the-art-cloud-technologies) - [Kotlin Multiplatform - True power of native code reuse](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/4-kotlin-multiplatform-true-power-of-native-code-reuse) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [Infrastructure as Code: The Developer's Secret Weapon](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1221-infrastructure-as-code-the-developer-s-secret-weapon) - [Retooling and refactoring - an investment in people.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/371-retooling-and-refactoring-an-investment-in-people) - [Migrating half a million users to a new payment service provider](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/730-migrating-half-a-million-users-to-a-new-payment-service-provider) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Software Engineer Salary London](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/252-software-engineer-salary-london) - [Walking Into The Era of Supply Chain Risks](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/106-walking-into-the-era-of-supply-chain-risks) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers)