Staff Software Engineer, Dev Environments

About the role

Deliveroo is part of DoorDash, and its Dev Environments team sits within DoorDash's Foundations group (Platform Engineering). The team owns the local and remote developer experience across the DoorDash group, supporting over 5,000 engineers. As a Staff Engineer, you will be an expert across local and remote dev flows, devcontainers, IDE/remote backends and how they fit together, owning accountability for outcomes that span multiple teams.

Key responsibilities

• Define the architecture for how thousands of engineers 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, setting the standard for the global backend behind the DoorDash group.
• 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.
• Design environments for AI agents as first-class consumers: on-demand sandboxes that run in parallel and safely host a real repository, supporting agents launched from an IDE, CLI or Slack message.
• Align teams such as Security, Infrastructure and Product Engineering around ambiguous problems, mentor engineers through design reviews, code review and pairing, and help set hiring standards and onboarding.

Required profile

• Track record of shipping production systems and leading cross-team initiatives with group-level impact, owning delivery end to end.
• Hands-on fluency in developer-tooling languages and tooling (e.g. Go, Python, TypeScript) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Experience managing compute via Kubernetes or lightweight VM/sandbox technology (e.g. Firecracker).
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to influence senior stakeholders and align non-adjacent teams without formal authority.
• Nice to have: developer-platform experience (devcontainers, remote IDE backends), JetBrains remote-backend flows, Codespaces/Codeserver-style products, remote build/execution systems (e.g. BuildBuddy) or large-scale build caching.

Required skills

• Go, Python, TypeScript
• Terraform
• Kubernetes
• Cloud networking (VPNs, service meshes)
• LLM/AI tooling integration (e.g. Claude Code)

What we offer

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• A low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment with flexible working and continuous learning.
• Interview process of 3-4 stages.