Engineering Manager, Event Streaming Systems

📋 Description

• Lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for Kafka, EventBus, and streaming infrastructure.
• Drive delivery of streaming platform initiatives, balancing reliability, scalability, and long-term evolution.
• Partner with infrastructure and engineering leaders across Deliveroo, DoorDash, and Wolt to define streaming strategy and roadmap.
• Improve the scalability, observability, automation, and reliability of Tier-0 streaming systems.
• Foster operational excellence through incident management, postmortems, and continuous improvement.
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineers while building a high-performing, inclusive team.
• Contribute to architecture, design reviews, and technical decision-making for large-scale distributed systems.

What You’ll Need to Thrive

• Experience leading streaming infrastructure, platform or distributed systems engineering teams.
• Experience with Kafka or large-scale event streaming systems.
• Strong technical depth in scalable production systems, with a track record of operating high-reliability infrastructure.
• Experience building or operating event streaming, storage, data infrastructure or similar large-scale distributed platforms.
• Proven ability to hire, mentor and grow engineers, while creating clear expectations and a strong team culture.
• Demonstrated ability to drive execution across complex, cross-functional technical initiatives with multiple stakeholders.

Why Join Us?

• Meaningful problems at real scale in a fast-moving marketplace.
• See your impact quickly in a low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment.
• Grow through challenge and ownership with strong support.
• Flexible, builder-friendly culture with learning opportunities.
• Competitive salary and equity options.