Engineering Manager (Infra/Edge)
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager (Infra/Edge) to join our London team. In this role, you’ll lead the team responsible for the production‑grade infrastructure that underpins three companies globally, ensuring the performance and security of our global traffic.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead Technical Strategy: Own and evolve the company’s Edge posture, including CDNs (Cloudflare/Fastly), traffic management, and network security patterns such as 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 You’ll Need to Thrive
- 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.
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. We’re 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 require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, you’ll have the opportunity to let us know once you’ve submitted your application. We’ll share details on how to request support so we can ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.
Benefits
A competitive and comprehensive compensation and benefits package.
- Competitive salary based on location.
- Potential annual cash bonus, sign‑on bonus, or relocation support.
- Up to 5% matched pension contributions.
- Share awards for eligible roles.
- Free Deliveroo Plus (delivery and special offers).
- Team lunches from local restaurants.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with tenure.
- One day of paid leave per year to volunteer with a registered charity.
- Funded single cover healthcare on core plan, optional family add‑ons.
- On‑site gym, discounted external memberships, access to wellbeing apps.
- Discounted dental insurance and additional flexible benefits.
- Life assurance.
- Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave from day one.
- Support for working from home and parent‑friendly culture.
- Free mortgage advice.
- Cycle to Work Scheme or Season Ticket Loans.
- Learning and development opportunities via RooLearn.
- Regular employee resource group social events.
Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash and may collaborate with teammates, systems, and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Opportunities to work globally are available.
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