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Deliveroo26 days ago

Staff Software Engineer, Dev Environments

onsite🇬🇧GBLondon, GBstaff

Recruiter Fit Breakdown & Candid Summary

1

This is a high-impact Staff-level role focused on platform engineering and developer experience at massive scale.

2

The ideal candidate is a seasoned infrastructure expert who has successfully navigated complex, cross-functional technical migrations and can influence without formal authority.

3

This role is not for those who prefer purely individual contributor coding tasks; it requires significant architectural leadership, stakeholder management, and strategic planning.

4

Candidates must be comfortable working onsite in London and operating in an environment that is currently consolidating multiple global engineering organizations.

Role Responsibilities

  • 1Define the architecture for local and remote developer environments, including dev containers and remote IDE backends.
  • 2Build and scale monorepo developer tooling to support thousands of engineers across multiple global companies.
  • 3Design and implement ephemeral, production-shaped environments that support both human developers and AI agents.
  • 4Lead cross-team initiatives involving Security, Infrastructure, and Product Engineering to solve ambiguous, company-wide problems.
  • 5Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural guidance.

Skills Matrix

Must-Have Skills

7 required
Go
Python
TypeScript
Terraform
Kubernetes(k8s)
Cloud Networking
LLM Integration(AI tooling)

Nice-to-Have Skills

5 preferred
Devcontainers
Remote Development(remote IDE backends)
Firecracker
BuildBuddy(remote build execution)
JetBrains Remote Development
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Grounded Observations to Note

Ambiguous organizational structure

"The Dev Environments team sits within DoorDash's Foundations group... across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo"

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