Site Reliability Engineer
Director Engineering, Platform
Berlinfulltime
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Company Description
As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.
Job Description
We are looking for a Director of Engineering, Platform to lead our Global Developer Engineering within the Tech Foundations vertical. Based in Berlin, your mission is to maximize the leverage of Delivery Hero’s engineering organizations by reducing complexity through a cohesive and opinionated platform, and to deliver an amazing developer experience.
In this role, you will oversee the unified developer platform and core infrastructure capabilities that empower over 4,000 software engineers across our global engineering community to build, deploy, and operate resilient software. Success in this role directly accelerates product delivery, enhances system stability, and optimizes cloud-native infrastructure costs across the entire Delivery Hero group.
Reporting to the VP of Global Developer Platform, you will be a strategic thought leader, an impactful mentor for engineering leaders, and a key partner to executive stakeholders across our global market-leading brands.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Platform Alignment: Defined and executed a comprehensive platform and Infrastructure strategy aligned with overarching business objectives, successfully managing infrastructure budgets, driving group-wide cost optimization, and demonstrating clear ROI to C-level executives.
- Platform-as-a-Product Mindset: Championed an internal "platform-as-a-product" approach, treating developers as key customers to deliver robust self-service capabilities and "golden paths" that minimized cognitive load and accelerated workflows.
- Global Team & Culture Leadership: Led, scaled, and mentored a global engineering organization of 50+ platform engineers across major hubs (including Berlin and Barcelona), establishing a high-trust culture focused on accountability and continuous learning.
- Leadership & Subsidiary Governance: Guided and coached engineering managers and while aligning embedded platform teams across global subsidiaries to maintain unified engineering standards.
- Unified Multi-Cloud Architecture: Oversee the architecture, design, and reliable rollout of automated, secure cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and microservices tooling aligned with the tech radar.
Qualifications Technical Experience:
- Proven Engineering Foundation: 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering, with at least 5+ years dedicated to platform engineering at a web-scale level.
- Large-Scale Platform Impact: Proven experience building, scaling, and driving the group-wide adoption of a unified developer platform in large, highly complex, or distributed organizations.
- Cloud-Native Architecture: Deep familiarity with cloud-native microservice landscapes, event-driven architectures, and robust containerization/observability frameworks.
- Tooling & Language Expertise: Technical proficiency in modern coding languages (such as Go) and robust experience with AWS and GCP infrastructure ecosystems.
Leadership Experience:
- Senior Leadership Track Record: 5+ years in senior engineering leadership roles (Director level or above) with demonstrated success managing multiple teams of teams and serving internal customers.
- Strategic Influencer: Outstanding communication and influencing skills, with a track record of gaining buy-in from senior leadership.
- Cost Management & ROI: Strong business acumen with a proven capability of managing large-scale infrastructure budgets and driving operational efficiencies.
- Educational Background: Master’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical engineering background is a plus.
Additional Information Why Delivery Hero?
- Hybrid Flexibility: Enjoy our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week.
- Generous Time Off: 27 days of holiday baseline, with additional days awarded on your 2nd and 3rd years of service.
- Growth & Development: €1,000 annual educational budget, language courses, parental support, and unlimited access to the Udemy Business platform.
- Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive health checkups, meditation programs, yoga sessions, and subsidies for gym memberships and bicycles.
- Financial Benefits: Employee Share Purchase Plan, corporate pension plan, sabbatical bank, public transportation ticket discounts, and life & accident insurance.
- Food & Perks: Digital meal vouchers, food allowances, and group-wide corporate discounts.
Have we caught your attention? If you are looking for an environment where our company DNA is defined by our values and People Leadership Principles**,** please send us your CV.
We’re looking forward to your application!
About us:
Delivery Hero Tech is playing an exceptional role in the large growth of our company. Our Tech teams leverage a diverse stack to create cutting-edge solutions which cover the full customer experience - starting with a great online search experience and ending with a real-time delivery at your doorstep.
Read about the latest updates from our Tech & Product teams on our blog**.**
Delivery Hero is building the next generation global on-demand delivery platform. We have grown rapidly from inception in 2011 to become the world's largest food-ordering network and we’re now innovating and creating new verticals such as groceries, pharmacies, flowers and other convenience articles in multiple markets.
Our awesome international team already operates in 70+ countries worldwide and we are looking for the most talented people to join us on our mission to ‘always deliver an amazing experience.’ If you’re an enthusiastic problem solver and hungry for a new adventure, an exciting job and multicultural workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin!
At Delivery Hero, we believe diversity and representation is key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or any other aspect that makes you, you.
Have we caught your attention? If you are looking for an environment where our company DNA is defined by our values, please send us your CV.
Find out more information on how to prepare for your technical interview here**.**
We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you.
We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just let us know with an email to our Inclusion Officer at inclusion@deliveryhero.com.
Severely disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preferential consideration.
You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.
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