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About the Role

Lead Global Developer Engineering within the Tech Foundations vertical 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. Oversee the unified developer platform and core infrastructure capabilities that empower over 4,000 software engineers globally. Success in this role directly accelerates product delivery, enhances system stability, and optimizes cloud-native infrastructure costs.

Responsibilities

Defined and executed a comprehensive platform and Infrastructure strategy aligned with overarching business objectives.
Managed infrastructure budgets and drove group-wide cost optimization.
Championed an internal "platform-as-a-product" approach, treating developers as key customers.
Led, scaled, and mentored a global engineering organization of 50+ platform engineers.
Established a high-trust culture focused on accountability and continuous learning.
Guided and coached engineering managers.
Aligned embedded platform teams across global subsidiaries to maintain unified engineering standards.
Oversaw the architecture, design, and reliable rollout of automated, secure cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and microservices tooling.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
At least 5+ years dedicated to platform engineering at a web-scale level.
Proven experience building, scaling, and driving the group-wide adoption of a unified developer platform in large, highly complex, or distributed organizations.
Deep familiarity with cloud-native microservice landscapes, event-driven architectures, and robust containerization/observability frameworks.
Technical proficiency in modern coding languages (such as Go).
Robust experience with AWS and GCP infrastructure ecosystems.
5+ years in senior engineering leadership roles (Director level or above).
Demonstrated success managing multiple teams of teams and serving internal customers.
Outstanding communication and influencing skills, with a track record of gaining buy-in from senior leadership.
Strong business acumen with a proven capability of managing large-scale infrastructure budgets and driving operational efficiencies.

Skills

Software Engineering
DevOps
Site Reliability Engineering
Platform Engineering
Cloud-Native Microservices
Event-Driven Architectures
Containerization
Observability Frameworks
Go
AWS
GCP
Leadership
Communication
Influencing
Business Acumen
Cost Management

Location

Berlin, Germany

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

10+ years of experience
5+ years in senior engineering leadership roles

Education Level

Master’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical engineering background is a plus.

Benefits

Hybrid working model (2 days a week in office)
27 days of holiday baseline, with additional days awarded on your 2nd and 3rd years of service.
€1,000 annual educational budget
Language courses
Parental support
Unlimited access to the Udemy Business platform
Comprehensive health checkups
Meditation programs
Yoga sessions
Subsidies for gym memberships and bicycles
Employee Share Purchase Plan
Corporate pension plan
Sabbatical bank
Public transportation ticket discounts
Life & accident insurance
Digital meal vouchers
Food allowances
Group-wide corporate discounts

About the Company

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.
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.
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!

Equal Opportunity

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.
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 [email protected].
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.