Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience building or operating distributed systems in production.

• Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming systems, either as a platform, infrastructure service or critical production dependency.

• Strong coding ability in Java, Go, Python or similar languages, with a focus on reliable, maintainable production systems.

• Experience operating scalable production infrastructure, including debugging, troubleshooting and improving reliability.

• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, observability, capacity management and operational excellence.

• Good fundamentals in Linux, networking and JVM-based systems, or curiosity to deepen expertise in these areas.

• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across platform, infrastructure and product engineering teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience contributing to Kafka or related open source distributed systems.

• Experience with Redpanda, WarpStream, AutoMQ, Pulsar or similar streaming technologies.

• Experience with JVM tuning, broker tuning, partition management or Cruise Control.

• Experience with tiered storage, diskless streaming architectures or multi-region event streaming platforms.

• Experience operating Tier-0 infrastructure at large scale.

What You'll Be Doing

• 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.

Perks and Benefits

• Solve meaningful problems at real scale, work on a complex, always-on marketplace that impacts millions every day.

• See your impact, fast, ship, test and improve ideas quickly in a low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment.

• Grow through challenge and ownership, take on big, ambiguous problems and accelerate your career with strong support.

• A culture built for builders, high standards, collaboration, flexible working and continuous learning.

• Share in the success you help create, competitive salary and equity options, so you’re rewarded for the impact you make.