# Software Platform Engineer, EU Traffic

**Company**: Deliveroo
**Location**: London, United Kingdom - Deliveroo
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/deliveroo/jobs/8334486?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

## Job Overview

We're seeking experienced Software Platform Engineers to join our EU Traffic team at Deliveroo, part of DoorDash. You'll help build the next generation of DoorDash's Traffic platform, a single shared platform serving DoorDash, Deliveroo, and Wolt.

## Responsibilities

- Design and build large-scale distributed systems that handle high RPS and latency-sensitive workloads

- Troubleshoot, debug, and fix production issues to maintain SLAs

- Collaborate with platform and product engineers to deliver feature requests and solve problems

- Improve team productivity and operational capabilities through automation and AI tools

- Participate in shared on-call rotations and lead production investigations and incidents

- Mentor and learn from teammates through design reviews, pairing, and incident reviews

## Requirements

- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering/SRE

- Experience operating edge technologies at scale, such as CDN, WAF, proxy layers, and DNS

- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals like TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, Load Balancing

- Background working on and debugging high-QPS or latency-sensitive systems

- Curious, collaborative, and comfortable making progress in ambiguity

- Experience working AI-first with tools like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor

## Nice to Have

- Experience with programming languages like Go, C++, Python, or Rust

- Experience with AWS, especially with networking primitives like LBs, Privatelink, etc. and Kubernetes or other container management tools

- Experience with service mesh technologies such as Envoy, Istio, or Linkerd

- Familiarity with xDS or control plane architectures

- Experience building RPC frameworks or client-side networking libraries

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling like Terraform

- Experience with Gitops delivery tooling such as ArgoCD, Helm, or Atlantis

## What We Offer

- Opportunity to work on a global scale with a leading logistics company

- Collaborative and dynamic work environment

- Professional growth and development opportunities

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- networking
- security
- Cloudflare
- service mesh
- authentication
- authorization
- TCP/IP
- HTTP
- gRPC
- Load Balancing

### Nice to have
- Go
- C++
- Python
- Rust
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Envoy
- Istio
- Linkerd
- Terraform
- ArgoCD
- Helm
- Atlantis

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