Staff Software Engineer, Dev Environments

Job description

The Dev Environments team sits within DoorDash's Foundations group (Platform Engineering). We own the local and remote developer experience across the DoorDash group of companies supporting over 5000 engineers. Our mission is to enable engineering velocity, quality, and efficiency at significant scale by removing friction from the day-to-day developer loop: spinning up a working environment, getting code building, and getting feedback fast, whether the "developer" is a human or an AI agent. ## As a Staff Engineer on Dev Environments, you'll be recognised as an expert across the dev environments space, covering both local and remote dev flows, devcontainers, IDE/remote backends, and how they all fit together, including owning accountability for outcomes that span multiple teams. You'll set technical direction for the team's roadmap, unblock deep cross-cutting technical problems other engineers can't resolve alone, and mentor senior and mid-level engineers. You'll partner closely with engineering leadership across the group to translate ambiguous, company-wide developer-experience problems into a concrete, sequenced technical strategy. ## What You’ll Be Doing Technical direction - Define the architecture for how thousands of engineers across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo actually develop and ship code: local and remote dev containers, remote IDE/VM lifecycle, and the full local-to-remote loop. - Build monorepo dev tooling at scale. It's part of consolidating all the companies under DoorDash’s umbrella onto one global backend - you're setting the standard, not patching one org's tooling. - Provision production-shaped environments in seconds, keep state in sync over the network, and make a remote machine feel local, reliably and cheaply, at thousands-of-concurrent-engineers scale. - Expect to invent as much as you adopt: much of this is genuinely unsolved elsewhere in the industry. - Design for AI agents as first-class consumers of the environment, not an afterthought: sandboxes that spin up on demand, run in parallel, and are safe to hand a real repo. - Support agents launched from an IDE, a CLI, or a Slack message - with no laptop required to review and ship what the agent did. Collaboration & leadership - Align teams that don't naturally sit adjacent to each other (e.g. Security, Infrastructure, Product Engineering) around unstructured, ambiguous problems where there's no existing playbook. - Mentor engineers at all levels: run design reviews; raise the engineering bar through code review, pairing, and architectural guidance when appropriate. - Help set the hiring bar: lead interview loops, help calibrate, and support onboarding of senior hires. ## **What You’ll Need to Thrive** Essential: - A track record of shipping production systems and leading cross-team initiatives with group level impact - comfortable owning delivery end to end, from design through to production and adoption. - Hands on fluency with the languages and tooling used to build developer tooling (e.g. Go, Python, TypeScript) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform). - Experience managing compute via Kubernetes (multi-tenant workload isolation, autoscaling ephemeral workloads, cost management), or lightweight VM/sandbox technology (e.g. Firecracker). - Working knowledge of cloud networking, including securely and cost-effectively routing traffic across network boundaries (VPNs, service meshes, etc.) - Experience integrating LLM/AI tooling into developer workflows - e.g. Claude Code - both locally, and remotely. - Excellent written and verbal communication; able to influence senior stakeholders and align multiple non-adjacent teams without formal authority over them. - Experience building close working relationships with the engineering teams who consume your platform, not just the platform team itself. Nice to have: - Experience in developer platforms or adjacent infrastructure: devcontainers, remote development, remote IDE backends, or developer workstation tooling. - Practical experience with JetBrains remote-backend flows, Codespaces/Codeserver-style products, or equivalent. - Experience with remote build/execution systems (e.g. BuildBuddy), or large-scale build caching. ## 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](https://deliveroo.engineering). 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](https://careers.deliveroo.co.uk/interview-guide-for-engineers/) 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.