Senior Security Engineer

Deliveroo

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 Software Engineer, Proactive Security to join our London (Hybrid - 3 days from the office) team. In this role, you will be a part of our inclusive, collaborative global team responsible for enabling 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. About 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 Software Engineer to lead the design, development and operation of security services within Deliveroo’s Product and Cloud Security domains. You will be a part of our inclusive, collaborative global team responsible for building “security paved paths” to ensure a safe, reliable and resilient delivery network. This is a London based position reporting directly to the European Senior Manager of our Security Engineering team based in London. What You’ll Need to Thrive * Build and maintain core security products, including but not limited to 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. Requirements * 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. 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! #LI-SW1

Deliveroo

About the team At Doordash, Deliveroo and Wolt, we’re building the industry’s most scalable and reliable delivery network to support our multi-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, Dashers, and partners. Security, privacy, and compliance are foundational to earning and maintaining trust as we expand globally. The Governance, Risk, and Compliance team partners across Security, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, Product, IT, Procurement, Internal Audit, and business teams to help DoorDash understand its compliance obligations, manage security and privacy risk, and build durable programs that scale with the company. About the role We’re looking for a Senior Information Security Specialist to help mature DoorDash’s global security and privacy compliance risk program. You will create and operationalise a global compliance change process framework that helps DoorDash detect changes in our compliance landscape, assess impact, identify gaps, and drive accountable remediation across teams. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who has managed global compliance frameworks and security/privacy compliance programs in a technology company. You will bring structure to ambiguous compliance changes, translate requirements into actionable control expectations, facilitate risk workshops, and help leadership understand compliance risk in clear business terms. What you'll be doing * Design and operate a global compliance change management framework to identify new or changing security, privacy, regulatory, contractual and framework obligations across DoorDash’s markets and products. * Maintain a structured view of DoorDash’s compliance landscape, including obligation inventories, control mappings, ownership models, risk decisions and remediation status. * Lead compliance-impact assessments for new regulations, framework updates, product launches, market expansions, vendor changes and major technology initiatives. * Facilitate compliance risk workshops with Engineering, Legal, Privacy, Product, Procurement, IT, Internal Audit and business stakeholders. * Translate complex regulatory, security, and privacy requirements into practical control expectations and specifications that technical and non-technical teams can implement. * Identify control gaps, assess residual risk, define remediation plans and track progress through closure with clear accountability. * Partner with control owners to improve evidence quality, audit readiness, and sustainable operation of controls across global compliance frameworks. * Help mature DoorDash’s risk register, compliance reporting, dashboards, metrics and executive-level risk communications. * Support control mapping and harmonization across frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, GDPR, UK GDPR, NIS2, DORA, and emerging AI governance requirements. * Promote a risk-based, pragmatic compliance culture that enables DoorDash teams to move quickly while protecting customers, partners, employees and the business. Requirements * You have 6+ years of experience in GRC, security compliance, technology risk, privacy compliance, IT audit, or a related field, preferably in a global technology, marketplace, SaaS, fintech or payments environment. * You have managed or materially contributed to a global compliance framework or security/privacy compliance management program. * You have built, operated or significantly improved a compliance change management, obligations management, control mapping or regulatory-change process. * You have hands-on experience facilitating risk assessments, compliance risk workshops, control self-assessments and remediation planning with cross-functional stakeholders. * You have strong working knowledge of security and privacy frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR or CCPA, and you can quickly assess applicability of new frameworks or regulatory requirements. * You understand how security and privacy controls operate in modern technology environments, including cloud infrastructure, identity and access management, SDLC, incident response, vendor risk, data governance and business continuity. * You can translate legal, regulatory and framework requirements into clear, tangible control specifications to engineers and explain technical risk in business terms. * You communicate clearly, write with precision and can create high-quality policies, procedures, risk memos, control narratives, executive updates, and decision records. * You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, balancing multiple priorities and driving outcomes without relying on constant direction. * You build trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders and can facilitate conversations rather than dictate outcomes. Why Doordash, Deliveroo and Wolt Our mission is to transform the way you shop and eat, bringing the neighbourhood to your door by connecting consumers, restaurants, shops and riders. We are transforming the way the world eats and shops by making access to food and products more convenient and enjoyable. We give people the opportunity to buy what they want, as they want it, when and where they want it. We are a technology-driven company at the forefront of the most rapidly expanding industry in the world. We are still a small team, making a very large impact, looking to answer some of the most interesting questions out there. We move fast, value autonomy and ownership, and we are always looking for new ideas. Workplace & Benefits At Doordash we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. Benefits differ by country, but we offer many benefits in areas including healthcare, well-being, parental leave, pensions, and generous annual leave allowances, including time off to support a charitable cause of your choice. Benefits are country-specific, please ask your recruiter for more information. Diversity At Doordash, 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 passion for (most) food and a desire to be part of one of the fastest-growing businesses in a rapidly growing industry. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of our hiring process. We recognise that some candidates may require adjustments to apply for a position or fairly participate in the interview process. If you require any adjustments, please don't hesitate to let us know. We will make every effort to provide the necessary adjustments to ensure you have an equitable opportunity to succeed.

Deliveroo

The Data & Science Org At Deliveroo we have an outstanding data science organisation, with a mission to enable the highest quality human and machine decision-making. We work throughout the company - in product, business and platform teams - using analysis, experimentation, causal inference and machine learning techniques. We are uniquely placed to use data to help make better decisions and improve data literacy across Deliveroo. Data Scientists at Deliveroo report into our data science management team, and we have a highly active data science community, with guest lecturers, study groups, mentorship programmes, a robust technical review process, and plenty of opportunities to learn new things. Data Scientists can equally progress as technical leads (individual contributors) and as people managers. Our data scientists come from all kinds of backgrounds but have excellence in common. Many are formally trained in data science, many are not. We celebrate difference and have a dedicated data science diversity committee. As an Economist at Deliveroo you will help scale our business and improve the experience for restaurants, riders, and eaters. Using experimental or observational data, you will get to help answer questions like: * Which markets/cities should we enter next? * How can we incentivise good rider behaviour? * What is the business impact of exclusive deals we have with restaurants? * Can the Delivery food market sustain multiple players? * What are the trade-offs we face when choosing between growth and profitability? How should we decide between them? * What is the optimum selection and variety of restaurants? * What impact do online reviews have? * How will a change in the user interface affect customer choice behaviour? The work you will do will have a direct, measurable impact on the bottom line of the company. REQUIREMENTS: * Masters Degree or PhD in Economics or Econometrics (preferred) * Always curious and willing to learn new skills * A problem solver with a deep analytical mindset * Ability to think creatively and insightfully about business-relevant economic problems * A critical thinker with very strong attention to detail * Proficiency with analytical tools like R/Python and familiarity with SQL * Ideally industry experience since the completion of your academic career * Excellent people skills — you’ll be meeting with stakeholders to translate business needs into economic problems At Deliveroo these are just some of the tough problems we are solving - and there is no challenge that cannot be yours. The scope for growth and personal impact is enormous. Why Deliveroo Our mission is to transform the way you shop and eat, bringing the neighbourhood to your door by connecting consumers, restaurants, shops and riders. We are transforming the way the world eats and shops by making access to food and products more convenient and enjoyable. We give people the opportunity to buy what they want, as they want it, when and where they want it. We are a technology-driven company at the forefront of the most rapidly expanding industry in the world. We are still a small team, making a very large impact, looking to answer some of the most interesting questions out there. We move fast, value autonomy and ownership, and we are always looking for new ideas. Workplace & Benefits At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. Benefits differ by country, but we offer many benefits in areas including healthcare, well-being, parental leave, pensions, and generous annual leave allowances, including time off to support a charitable cause of your choice. Benefits are country-specific, please ask your recruiter for more information. Diversity At Deliveroo, 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 passion for (most) food and a desire to be part of one of the fastest-growing businesses in a rapidly growing industry. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of our hiring process. We recognise that some candidates may require adjustments to apply for a position or fairly participate in the interview process. If you require any adjustments, please don't hesitate to let us know. We will make every effort to provide the necessary adjustments to ensure you have an equitable opportunity to succeed.