Senior Software Engineer, Proactive Security

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.

Who We Are

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, Proactive Security to join our London (Hybrid - 3 days from the office) team. In this role, you will be a part of our inclusive, collaborative global team responsible for enabling proactive security outcomes with “security paved paths” to ensure a safe, reliable and resilient delivery network.

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

About the Team

At Deliveroo we’re striving to build London’s best and most admired Security Engineering organisation as part of our global team based across North America and Europe.

Our London based Security Engineering team is looking for a Software Engineer to lead the design, development and operation of security services within Deliveroo’s Product and Cloud Security domains. You will be a part of our inclusive, collaborative global team responsible for building “security paved paths” to ensure a safe, reliable and resilient delivery network.

This is a London based position reporting directly to the European Senior Manager of our Security Engineering team based in London.

What You’ll Need to Thrive

• Build and maintain core security products, including but not limited to Remote Access Management, Secrets Management, Tokenization, Encryption and Knowledge Graphs, Access Control at global scale.
• Partner cross-functionally with Core Infrastructure, Product Engineering, Legal, Security teams and Vendor Partners to build “paved paths” that provide actionable feedback to embed secure design practices into the product and infrastructure development process.
• Lead the technical direction and roadmap for your assigned area of ownership.
• Build and maintain high Operational Excellence (OE) to ensure we operate T0 services with excellence, rigor and durable standards to ensure minimal to no downtime.
• Participate in on-call rotation and promptly respond to on-call events with urgency and rigor.
• Manage the lifecycle of security product feature requests and improvements full life-cycle from triage, validation, design, testing, and implementation.
• Influence and drive improvements to engineering standards, leverage advancements and LLMs to improve productivity and velocity.
• Mentor and coach earlier career engineers, setting and enforcing high standards for Operational Excellence and Software Engineering.

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!

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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!

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