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 Deliveroo’s growth at scale. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager (Infra/Edge) to join our London team ( hybrid, 3 days in the office ). 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. 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 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. Here’s what your day-to-day might look like: Lead Technical Strategy: Own and evolve the company’s 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 You’ll 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, you’ll do work that matters—solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace that’s constantly evolving. We’re food lovers, problem solvers, community builders 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 you’re 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 shine—our 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, we’re 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. 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. If you’re excited about making a real impact in a fast-moving marketplace and growing your career alongside ambitious, supportive teams, we’d love to hear from you!