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# Senior Platform Engineer - Developer Platform

- **Company:** Deliveroo
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Programming Tools, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Build Tools, Terraform
- **Published:** August 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=dab0db1fcb6736d3

## About the Role

Our ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others:

 * A strong background in software engineering, preferably with Go and/or Python
 * Extensive experience with infrastructure tooling, ideally Terraform
 * Extensive experience with managing AWS cloud environments
 * Demonstrated ability to contribute to the direction of a technical domain in the platform space (eg. Container Orchestration, Kafka, Build Systems, Observability)
 * Background in building AI-assisted developer tools or integrating LLM-backed

## Description

You'll be joining the Developer Platform group. The group builds the core systems, tools, and environments that empower engineers to ship high-quality capabilities quickly and confidently. We own the developer experience for DoorDash's primary monorepo, maintain the Bazel-based build ecosystem, evolve development environments for engineers & agents alike, and manage IDEs and agentic tooling. Our mission is to remove friction, improve iteration speed, and ensure a consistent, reliable experience across every stage of DoorDash's software development lifecycle.

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

 * You are a Project Owner who can understand customer problems and translate objectives into well defined and scoped sub-problems for yourself and peers.
 * You set a high bar for craftsmanship, reliability, and scalability, and lead by example in execution. You are capable of making long term vs short term trade-offs and design high-quality, durable solutions
 * You have effective project management skills and can manage moderate levels of ambiguity.
 * You take ownership of areas within your team's charter and make improvements that deliver real impact for your customers and peers. You identify gaps and provide recommendations to your cross-functional partners with regularity.
 * You are a role model within your own team, showing up as an empathetic and influential teacher and mentor.


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