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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Deliveroo
- **Location:** UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Code Review, Programming Tools, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Python (Programming Language), TypeScript, JetBrains, Large Language Models, Claude Code, Caching, Backend, Agentic-AI, Kubernetes, Terraform, Golang
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-dev-environments-deliveroo-10506569

## About the Role

* A track record of shipping production systems and leading cross-team initiatives with group level impact - comfortable owning delivery end to end, from design through to production and adoption.
 * Hands on fluency with the languages and tooling used to build developer tooling (e.g. Go, Python, TypeScript) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
 * Experience managing compute via Kubernetes (multi-tenant workload isolation, autoscaling ephemeral workloads, cost management), or lightweight VM/sandbox technology (e.g. Firecracker).
 * Working knowledge of cloud networking, including securely and cost-effectively routing traffic across network boundaries (VPNs, service meshes, etc.)
 * Experience integrating LLM/AI tooling into developer workflows - e.g. Claude Code - both locally, and remotely.
 * Excellent written and verbal communication; able to influence senior stakeholders and align multiple non-adjacent teams without formal authority over them.
 * Experience building close working relationships with the engineering teams who consume your platform, not just the platform team itself.

Nice to have:

 * Experience in developer platforms or adjacent infrastructure: devcontainers, remote development, remote IDE backends, or developer workstation tooling.
 * Practical experience with JetBrains remote-backend flows, Codespaces/Codeserver-style products, or equivalent.
 * Experience with remote build/execution systems (e.g. BuildBuddy), or large-scale build caching., 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!

## Description

As a Staff Engineer on Dev Environments, you'll be recognised as an expert across the dev environments space, covering both local and remote dev flows, devcontainers, IDE/remote backends, and how they all fit together, including owning accountability for outcomes that span multiple teams. You'll set technical direction for the team's roadmap, unblock deep cross-cutting technical problems other engineers can't resolve alone, and mentor senior and mid-level engineers. You'll partner closely with engineering leadership across the group to translate ambiguous, company-wide developer-experience problems into a concrete, sequenced technical strategy.

What You'll Be Doing

Technical direction

 * Define the architecture for how thousands of engineers across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo actually develop and ship code: local and remote dev containers, remote IDE/VM lifecycle, and the full local-to-remote loop.
 * Build monorepo dev tooling at scale. It's part of consolidating all the companies under DoorDash's umbrella onto one global backend - you're setting the standard, not patching one org's tooling.
 * Provision production-shaped environments in seconds, keep state in sync over the network, and make a remote machine feel local, reliably and cheaply, at thousands-of-concurrent-engineers scale.
 * Expect to invent as much as you adopt: much of this is genuinely unsolved elsewhere in the industry.
 * Design for AI agents as first-class consumers of the environment, not an afterthought: sandboxes that spin up on demand, run in parallel, and are safe to hand a real repo.
 * Support agents launched from an IDE, a CLI, or a Slack message - with no laptop required to review and ship what the agent did.

Collaboration & leadership

 * Align teams that don't naturally sit adjacent to each other (e.g. Security, Infrastructure, Product Engineering) around unstructured, ambiguous problems where there's no existing playbook.
 * Mentor engineers at all levels: run design reviews; raise the engineering bar through code review, pairing, and architectural guidance when appropriate.
 * Help set the hiring bar: lead interview loops, help calibrate, and support onboarding of senior hires.