Staff Platform Engineer Job at DELIVER (London)

Job Description

The Local DevEx team within the Foundations group empowers engineers to develop, test, and ship high-quality services quickly and confidently. We own and evolve the local developer experience across the DoorDash group of companies via a paved-path DevContainers-based development platform for engineers & agentic workflows, with related IDE tooling. The team’s mission is to enable engineers across the engineering pillars of Quality, Velocity and Efficiency by building framework-level tooling and developer flows that scale across the company. As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will be recognised as an expert in at least one relevant technical area and be responsible for solutions that deliver group-level (multiple team) outcomes. You will lead technical direction for at least 1 team, remove deep technical blockers across teams, and mentor other engineers. You will report to senior managers and as leads for the group, work together to deliver wide impact.

Job Responsibility

Define and own the technical architecture for local and remote dev flows: including devcontainers, IDE remote backends, and build seamless integration points into our engineering ecosystem
Design and continuously improve the paved-path developer journeys: time-to-first-change, onboarding flows (MSC distribution, Tailscale setup), IDE remote flows, and UX for day-to-day developer tasks. Instrument and iterate based on developer metrics and feedback
Own the integration strategy for remote execution (BuildBuddy or equivalent), accelerate development on the company monorepo (Pedregal). Define caching/invalidation approaches and CI/remote-exec interactions to keep developer loops fast and predictable
Forecasting and managing project timelines and risks, and setting a sustainable and incremental team pace
Align non-adjacent teams and disciplines (including Product, Security, Core Infrastructure and Product Engineering) to resolve unstructured and ambiguous challenges
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, run technical design reviews, and raise the engineering bar through code reviews and architectural guidance
Lead engineering interviews and help set the bar for hiring. Help onboard senior engineers and contribute to interview loops and hiring decisions

Requirements

Recognised as deeply experienced in developer platforms or related infra: devcontainers, remote development, remote IDE backends, or developer workstation tooling
Demonstrated shipping production systems and delivering cross-team initiatives that impact group goals
Hands-on experience with CLI/tooling platforms and developer UX
practical experience with languages and tooling used for developer tooling (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript) and infra as code (Terraform)
Practical experience with JetBrains remote backend flows or Codespaces/Codeserver-style products
Experience with BuildBuddy or remote build/execution systems, large cache architectures, or Firecracker/lightweight VM snapshotting
Experience integrating LLM/AI tooling into developer flows (on-device or code-local assistants such as Claude Code), including considerations for privacy, auditability and safe defaults
Excellent communicator who can influence Product and senior stakeholders and align multiple non-adjacent teams
Experience of working closely and building relationships with customer engineering groups

What we offer

A competitive and comprehensive compensation and benefits package
Up to 5% matched pension contributions
Some roles may be eligible for share awards
Free Deliveroo Plus: free delivery and access to special offers
Team lunches from the best local restaurants
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with length of time spent working at Deliveroo
One day of paid leave per year to volunteer with a registered charity
Funded single cover healthcare on our core plan, with the option to add family members at own cost
On-site gym (HQ), discounted external gym membership
Access to wellbeing apps such as LesMills+, Strava, Headspace, Yogaia via GymPass
Discounted dental insurance and a range of other flexible benefits, such as critical illness cover, partner life cover, travel insurance, health assessments
Life assurance
Maternity, paternity and maternity and shared parental leave, eligible from day one of employment
Excellent kit to enable working from home and a parent-friendly working culture
Access to free mortgage advice
Cycle to Work Scheme or Season Ticket Loans, depending how you wish to travel
Excellent learning and development opportunities and access to RooLearn, our learning platform, packed with high-quality training and content
Regular Employee Resource Group (ERG) led social events – examples include dinners, dance lessons and in-office yoga sessions
Summer and end-of-year parties

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