Senior Software Engineer, Proactive Security
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Job description
A Senior Software Engineer, Proactive Security role at Deliveroo in London (hybrid), building and operating security services and 'security paved paths' across Product and Cloud Security domains. The engineer leads technical direction for their area and partners cross-functionally to embed secure design practices.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Hybrid · London, United Kingdom
What you'll do
- Build and maintain core security products, including 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
What we're looking for
- Able to demonstrate a track record of driving improvements to a company's infrastructure security posture
- Breadth of technical experience across various infrastructure and security areas running in large production environments
- Highly skilled in distributed systems and platforms development using program languages such as Java/Scala/Kotlin, Golang, or Python
- Strong experience with infrastructure as a code tooling like Terraform
- Expertise with cloud infrastructure and management in AWS
- Experience solving complex, systemic issues that require creative thinking and solutions
- Exceptional analytical and investigative abilities with hands-on experience leading root cause analysis
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to review design documents with respect to cloud infrastructure, security and engineering personnel
- Must be comfortable regularly exercising discretion and independent judgment in performing job duties, including evaluating options, making informed decisions, and determining appropriate courses of action within the scope of assigned responsibilities with minimal oversight
Your team
Proactive Security Engineering
London based Security Engineering team building "security paved paths" to ensure a safe, reliable and resilient delivery network; part of a global team based across North America and Europe.
Benefits
See your impact, ship fast, leaning into AI, test and improve ideas quickly in a low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment
- Solve meaningful problems at real scale — work on a complex, always-on marketplace that impacts millions every day
- 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 DoorDash RSUs
How to get hired
- 1Our interview typically includes 5-6 stages
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About Deliveroo
Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash, bringing together teams with even greater reach, scale, and ambition. 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.
Mission
To transform the way people shop and eat
Key facts
- Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash
- Engineering teams work across a global, three-sided marketplace
- Security Engineering team is based across North America and Europe
What they value
- Impact, innovation and growth
- Inclusive, collaborative
- Low-hierarchy, high-ownership
- High standards, collaboration, flexible working and continuous learning