Engineering Manager (Infra Edge)
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Job Summary
Engineering Manager (Infra/Edge)
Join us in our mission to transform the way people shop and eat where impact innovation and growth drive everything we do. Our Engineering teams tackle complex technical challenges across a global three-sided marketplace building and scaling systems that serve millions of customers riders and partners every day.
From real-time logistics to resilient infrastructure and marketplace optimisation we design build and operate technology that powers Deliveroos growth at scale.
Were looking for an Engineering Manager (Infra/Edge) to join our London this role youll lead the team responsible for the production-grade infrastructure that underpins three companies globally ensuring the performance and security of our global traffic.
Get to know our Engineering team what drives us how we work and what you can expect.
What Youll Be Doing
Youll be joining the Edge team within Foundations. The Edge team underpins the performance reliability and security of our north/south traffic at the boundary between our global systems and the outside world.
Heres what your day-to-day might look like:
Lead Technical Strategy: Own and evolve the companys Edge posture including CDNs (Cloudflare/Fastly) traffic management and network security patterns like WAFs and DDoS mitigation.
Drive Delivery: Set priorities and break complex projects into iterative deliverables ensuring high-quality on-time execution for high-blast-radius systems.
Mentor & Develop: Line-manage and coach engineers across levels cultivating a culture of psychological safety high trust and structured career progression.
Ensure Operational Excellence: Set standards for SLOs/SLAs monitoring and low-noise alerting while leading incident responses and long-term preventative work.
Collaborate Globally: Partner with Staff Engineers and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt to align on architecture reliability standards and global traffic routing.
What Youll Need to Thrive
Our ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others:
Technical Leadership: Proven experience managing and developing high-performing engineering teams delivering complex production systems.
Edge & Networking Expertise: Hands-on experience with CDNs proxies (Nginx/HAProxy) DNS (Route53) and VPC routing.
Distributed Systems: A strong foundation in infrastructure engineering cloud networking and low-latency high-throughput services.
Operational Rigour: Significant experience driving operational excellence through SLOs on-call rotations and post-incident reviews.
Architectural Credibility: Ability to review complex designs (TDDs) and PRs ensuring they meet rigorous global standards.
Why Join Us
At Deliveroo youll do work that matterssolving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace thats constantly evolving. Were food lovers problem solvers community organisers proud parents and more brought together by a shared drive to make things better. Working here you can expect to:
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 youre rewarded for the impact you make.
Want a deeper look at how we build Check out our Tech Blog.
We aim to create a fair process that lets your skills shineour interview typically includes 3-4 stages. Explore our Engineering Interview Guide here to help you feel confident at each stage.
Our Global Structure
Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash bringing together teams with even greater reach scale and ambition. Depending on your role you may collaborate with teammates systems and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Together were unlocking new possibilities as one global team.
Diversity Equity and Inclusion
At Deliveroo we know that a great workplace reflects the world around us and that true diversity and inclusion make us stronger more creative and better at what we do. Were committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel they belong.
We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age gender ethnicity disability sexual orientation gender identity socio-economic background religion or belief.
If you have a disability or long-term health condition and need support to apply for one of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process please contact our recruitment team at and well be happy to help ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.
If youre excited about solving meaningful problems at scale and growing with a supportive team wed love to hear from you.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
