Our ambition is to be the definitive food company, feeding people three times a day with great food from the World's best-loved restaurants, all with an unparalleled level of convenience.

From distributed computing to large-scale system design, complex algorithms to beautiful user interfaces, we have teams working on every step of the journey to ensure we continue to offer our customers a growing selection of choice at the best price with a fantastic level of service.

We work with thousands of restaurants worldwide, from renowned local gems to your favourite chains, allowing them to open up a new revenue stream and reach new customers. Our restaurant partners, riders and customers are as passionate about food as we are, and if you want to make an impact on millions of users by solving some of the biggest technical challenges at great scale, come on board and join the ride.

At Deliveroo we’re striving to build one of the world’s best engineering organisations.

We’re dedicated to building a collaborative and supportive culture. We set goals and objectives. We empower our engineers to find solutions to problems at great scale. We trust them to use their time wisely.

Our teams are solving unique and difficult problems at scale in an energetic and fast-paced environment. We’re growing incredibly quickly and we need experienced engineers to help us scale.

We’re looking for a Database Reliability Engineer who can have a transformative influence on the way we build, operate and manage our data stores. 

• Work on database reliability and performance aspects for Deliveroo as well as work on shipping solutions for the platform.
• Work with teams to roll out changes to our production environment and help mitigate database-related production incidents.
• On-call support on rotation with the team.
• Demonstrate deep expertise in Postgresql and analyse solutions and implement best practices for our main PostgreSQL database cluster and its components.
• Work on observability of relevant database metrics and make sure we reach our database objectives.
• Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for example through reviews of database migrations, queries and performance optimizations).
• Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools.
• Support and debug database production issues across services and levels of the stack.
• Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and SLOs, and not on outages.
• Document every action so your learnings turn into repeatable actions and then into

• Proven experience of implementing, running and managing highly performant and highly available MySQL, Aurora,  DynamoDB and/or Postgresql databases, preferable in a DBA role 
• Good understanding of Unix/Linux systems and networking. 
• Ability to write high quality code in Python, Go, or equivalent languages.
• Experience with cloud computing - AWS preferable.
• Strong infrastructure as code skills, ideally with Terraform.
• Proven leadership skills, including coaching, team-building and generally supporting peers and colleagues. 

At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. We offer multiple great benefits in areas including health, family, finance, community, convenience, growth, time away and relocation.

We believe a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are - your gender, race, sexuality, religion or a secret aversion to coriander. All you need is a desire to be part of one of the fastest growing startups around.

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