Principal Platform Engineer

Join Just Eat Takeaway.com: Empower Everyday Convenience

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

We are seeking a highly experienced and visionary Principal Platform Engineer to provide strong technical leadership and drive the evolution of our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices. This is a critical role focused on enhancing our tech platform's automation capabilities, ensuring seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines, and championing a developer self-service model. You will also explore and implement cutting-edge AI tools to further optimize our DevOps processes.

You will play a pivotal part in our ongoing platform consolidation efforts, designing and implementing highly available and resilient systems capable of withstanding migrations and extensive automation initiatives. If you thrive in complex, large-scale environments and have a passion for building robust, scalable, and automated infrastructure in a company experiencing significant growth and transformation, this is the perfect challenge for you.

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) across multiple engineering teams and diverse technology stacks.
• Drive the adoption of Platform best practices, automation, and developer self-service capabilities across our global tech platform.
• Champion a culture of automation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Mentor and guide other Platform engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
• Research, evaluate, and champion the adoption of AI tools (e.g., AWS Bedrock, GitHub Copilot for IaC) to enhance Platform efficiency, code generation, and anomaly detection.
• Architect, design, and implement robust, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure solutions using advanced IaC principles and tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi).
• Automate infrastructure and operational tasks to improve efficiency, reliability, and speed of delivery, leveraging AI-assisted tooling where beneficial.
• Develop strategies for managing and consolidating legacy systems while transitioning to modern, scalable architectures.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of our internal technology platform, focusing on ease of use, reliability, and scalability.
• Champion and build out developer self-service capabilities to empower engineering teams and accelerate a secure software development lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain advanced CI/CD pipelines for automated provisioning, configuration, and deployment of infrastructure and applications.
• Drive standardization and best practices across disparate systems and teams.
• Implement and manage comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (e.g. DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana) to ensure proactive issue detection and resolution.
  

What will you bring to the team?

• Proven track record as a Principal or Lead DevOps Engineer
• Deep, hands-on experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure and GCP are highly preferred). Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and cost optimization.
• Expert-level proficiency with IaC tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, or CloudFormation. Demonstrable experience in writing, managing, and optimizing complex IaC modules and state.
• Experience or strong interest in leveraging AI tools for DevOps and IaC, such as AWS Bedrock, GitHub Copilot, or other AI-driven solutions for automation, code generation, security analysis, or operational intelligence.
• Demonstrated ability to define and drive technical strategy, influence and inspire engineering teams, and lead complex infrastructure projects.
• In-depth knowledge and practical experience in designing, building, and managing sophisticated CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).
• Passion for empowering developers by creating intuitive self-service tools and platforms.
• Solid understanding and experience in designing and implementing highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems. Experience with migration and consolidation projects is a significant plus.
• Experience navigating the complexities of diverse technology landscapes resulting from company acquisitions and mergers. Ability to drive consolidation and standardization.
• Proficient with container technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, GKE, EKS).
• Experience with modern monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack).
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash, Go).

At JET, this is how we play

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.

Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to 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.