Senior Engineering Manager, Proactive Security

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 Engineer Manager, Proactive Security to join our London (Hybrid - 3 days from the office) team. In this role, you will lead a Europe based team of Security Engineers and Software Engineers that are building and maintaining security products and in-house platforms that enable 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.

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 Senior Engineering Manager, Proactive Security to manage, mentor and coach our engineering teams across our Security Engineering and Software Engineering pillars of the London based Proactive Security team.

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

Our teams are solving unique and difficult problems at scale in an energetic and hyper-growth environment. Our business is growing incredibly quickly and we need experienced technical managers to help us scale.

This is a London based position reporting directly to the Global Director of Proactive Security based in the US.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Line manage Security and Software Engineers as part of our London based Proactive Security team.

• Lead, scope and set project goals and continue to support and develop your team

• Grow a diverse, highly-skilled group of Security and Software engineers, gaining fantastic exposure to scaling a tech team at a unique pace and global reach.

• Create a learning environment for your team and act as a “player-coach” mentor for engineers and up and coming tech leads and managers.

• Become instrumental in improving and implementing processes and values that scale effectively

• Provide technical mentorship to engineers building and deploying large-scale services globally

• Collaborate with cross functional teams including core product, infrastructure, design, operations, and more.

What You’ll Need to Thrive

• Proven leadership experience as a Senior Engineering Manager with direct experience leading Security Product and/or Security Engineering teams.

• Experience managing both Managers and Individual Contributors

• Strong technical skills, architectural knowledge, problem solving, and experience setting strategic direction with cloud native infrastructure

• Experience as a Software Engineer or Security Engineer and Manager building security products at scale.

• A management style that is collaborative and supportive as a “player-coach” encouraging your team to continually optimise their processes and practices and improve quality and stability of their code base while also supporting growth and career progression

• Set clear goals and objectives and offer deeply technical advice, setting your team up for success

• Experience building teams, recruiting and being a partner to the Recruiting Team

• Cross-functional work experience and collaborative problem solving

Requirements

• Experience as a Software Engineering Manager in an Information Security or Infrastructure Engineering discipline.

• Able to demonstrate a track record of leading a team to drive 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 languages such as Java/Scala/Kotlin, Golang, or Python.

• Deep expertise with cloud infrastructure and management in AWS and/or GCP.

• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-tier global teams, with experience running Tier 0 services with high SLO and no down-time

• Executive-level communication skills and the ability to influence partners without formal authority.

• Skill in prioritizing complex portfolios and making decisive calls under pressure.

• Exceptional experience solving complex, systemic issues that require creative thinking and solutions.

• Exceptional analytical and investigative abilities with hands-on experience leading root cause analysis.

• Exceptional 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 supervision.

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 organisers, proud parents, 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, ship fast, leaning into AI, 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 DoorDash RSUs, so you’re rewarded for the impact you make.

➡️ Want a deeper look at how we build? Check out our Tech Blog.

We aim to create a fair process that lets your skills shine—our interview typically includes 5-6 stages. Explore our Engineering Interview Guide here 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. 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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--- Sector: Retail Subsectors: Marketplace, E-Commerce, Food, Local, Retail, Smb Functions: Software Engineering, Other Engineering