Senior Software Engineer, Event Streaming Systems

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Senior Software Engineer, Event Streaming Systems

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 Deliveroo’s growth at scale.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. This is a hybrid role. In this role, you’ll help us build and operate the event streaming infrastructure that powers business-critical workflows across Deliveroo, DoorDash and Wolt.

Get to know our Engineering team, what drives us, how we work, and what you can expect.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll be joining the Event Streaming Systems team within the broader Storage organisation. The team builds and operates highly reliable, scalable and efficient event streaming infrastructure, including Kafka, Event Streaming abstractions(internally called EventBus) and future streaming platform technologies. These systems support Tier-0 workflows and are foundational to how engineering teams build reliable, event-driven products at scale.

Here’s what your day-to-day might look like

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, capac