Senior Software Engineer, Event Streaming Systems

About the role

Deliveroo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Event Streaming Systems team. You will design, build, and operate highly reliable, scalable event streaming infrastructure that powers business-critical workflows across Deliveroo, DoorDash, and Wolt.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate large-scale event streaming infrastructure that supports critical production workloads.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, observability and automation of Kafka, EventBus and related streaming platforms.
• Debug complex distributed systems issues, including performance bottlenecks, capacity constraints and production reliability challenges.
• Build infrastructure automation and self-healing capabilities that reduce operational toil and improve platform resilience.
• Contribute to incident response, operational readiness and continuous improvement for Tier-0 infrastructure.
• Partner closely with EventBus, Storage, SRE, Data Platform and Core Infrastructure teams across US and EU regions.
• Help shape the long-term architecture and evolution of Deliveroo’s event streaming platform.

Required skills

• Distributed systems
• Kafka
• Java
• Go
• Python
• Infrastructure automation
• Observability
• Capacity management
• Linux
• Networking
• JVM

Nice to have

• Redpanda
• WarpStream
• AutoMQ
• Pulsar
• JVM tuning
• Broker tuning
• Partition management
• Cruise Control
• Tiered storage

Benefits

• Equity options

About the Company

Deliveroo is part of DoorDash, operating a global, three-sided marketplace that serves millions of customers, riders, and partners. The company focuses on real-time logistics, resilient infrastructure, and marketplace optimization.