Platform Engineer

Position: Platform Engineer

Department: Analytics Platform

Full Time

London or Bristol

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

You will be part of the Analytics Platform team within the Data Platforms department. The Analytics Platform team is responsible for building and maintaining cloud infrastructure and data pipelines to collect and stream user behaviour data from our websites and mobile applications with reliability, scale, and speed. You will join a well established and high performing team that is enabling data producers and consumers across the business to do more with data.

We are an engineering-focused team whose mission is to build a robust internal product that underpins critical business capabilities such as experimentation, machine learning, marketing, and product analytics. You will be responsible for developing new capabilities to meet the growing business requirements for streaming data and managing our cloud infrastructure to ensure our capabilities are reliable.

These are some of the key components to the position:

Design and manage scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS to support our real-time data pipelines.

Automate the entire lifecycle of our data pipeline, from deployment and upgrades to quality control and operational monitoring.

Ensure the platform adheres to best practices for performance, security, and scalability.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g. Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Developers, and Product Managers) to deeply understand business requirements.

Translate business needs into technical solutions, designing the platform and pipelines to meet current and future demands.

Lead innovation in real-time data, working with engineering and business stakeholders to identify and implement new technologies and processes.

What will you bring to the team?

2+ years of experience in a Cloud, Platform, or SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) Engineering role, with a demonstrated passion for working in a data-intensive environment.

Strong hands-on experience with AWS services such as EKS, S3, Lambda, and Kinesis.

Solid practical experience developing, deploying, and operating applications on Kubernetes.

Proven expertise working with a data streaming platform, preferably Kafka.

Experience building data pipelines with a tool like RedPanda Connect (Benthos).

Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go, Python, JavaScript).

Solid understanding and practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps methodologies.

Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).

Strong communication skills with a proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g. Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Product Managers, Product Engineers).

Experience investigating and resolving operational incidents in a production environment.

Experience with other stream processing frameworks like Apache Flink. (Preferred)

Prior experience with User Behaviour Analytics. (Preferred)

Knowledge of data governance and data security and compliance practices. (Preferred)

Familiarity with GCP, especially Google BigQuery and writing production-level SQL. (Preferred)

A background in data engineering, including concepts like data modeling, schema evolution, or ETL/ELT processes. (Preferred)

At JET, this is on the menu:

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

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