At Deliveroo, our mission is to transform the way you shop and eat, bringing the neighbourhood to your door. We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer (DevEx) to be recognized as an expert and lead the technical solutions that deliver group-level outcomes. In this role, you'll be responsible for technical direction, removing deep technical blockers, and mentoring engineers.

What You'll Do

Define and own the technical architecture for local and remote dev flows, including devcontainers, IDE remote backends, and integration points into the engineering ecosystem.
Design and continuously improve paved-path developer journeys: time-to-first-change, onboarding flows, 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 (e.g., BuildBuddy) to accelerate development on the company monorepo.
Define caching/invalidation approaches and CI/remote-exec interactions to keep developer loops fast and predictable.
Forecast and manage project timelines and risks, and set a sustainable team pace.
Align non-adjacent teams and disciplines (Product, Security, Core Infrastructure, Product Engineering) to resolve unstructured challenges.
Coach and mentor other folks across all levels and support up-and-coming leaders.
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, including onboarding senior engineers and contributing to interview loops.

What We're Looking For

Deeply experienced in developer platforms or related infra: devcontainers, remote development, remote IDE backends, or developer workstation tooling.
Sought out for advice and design reviews by multiple teams.
Demonstrated shipping production systems and delivering cross-team initiatives that impact group goals.
Comfortable owning end-to-end technical delivery from design to production.
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.