Associate Platform Engineer

Job title:

Associate Platform Engineer

Company

Just Eat Takeaway

Job description

The OpportunityJust Eat Takeaway is seeking an aspiring Engineer to join the Platform Observability team. The team sits within the Platform & Reliability department, which exists to provide global engineering a magnifying glass into their services while driving commercial availability and optimization. The team is responsible for looking after a wide range of Observability capabilities that underpin our global platforms. Examples include:Tool stability: provide support across environments to the services owned by Platform Observability, ensuring they are constantly running in an optimal stateProduction Incidents: respond to and investigate options to address interruptions or degradation of services around our observability toolingInfrastructure stability: work on initiatives that ensure that the group is implementing any plans to keep the platform stable, scalable and cost-effectiveAutomate and eliminate toil: look into manual tasks or errors and optimize our tooling to reduce those while keeping a decent user experienceWorking with JET counterparts to discover opportunities for collaboration and sharing input and experience on what’s working, what isn’t, and asking for suggestions or guidance on our initiativesObservability advancement: help implement observability-related solutions that are cloud-based and aligned with the group’s strategy and our global users’ needs, while taking into account geographic peculiaritiesAs an Associate Platform Engineer, you will support the implementation and continual evolution of these areas, following guidance from more experienced engineers within the department. One of your initial assignments will be to support the company’s observability users and their queries via the Slack support channel and ticket queue.In this role, you will be expected to have a passion for technology and a desire to learn. You will have the opportunity to positively impact over 80 Product Development teams globally, fostering a true DevOps culture.Key ResponsibilitiesAs an Associate Engineer in the Platform team, you will need to:Be able to track the progress you are making towards your team’s goals and communicate that progress transparently to your team and Technical Manager.Keep to the processes, standards and designs that you and your team have agreed on.Communicate the technical work of your team to other engineering teams.Take responsibility for supporting your changes all the way through to production, proving that they work well – and continue to work well – in production, once reviewed by your peers.Every member of the Technology Team is responsible for:The availability, security, and scalability of our platforms.Delivering the technology and business roadmap.Planning for the future.Being available as a support line in case of an incident, or even just questions or problems other engineers might have when using our products.Your Profile & ExperienceInterest and understanding in Cloud engineering.Familiarity with Infrastructure Automation concepts.Understanding of monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Graphite, Vector and Grafana.Interest in Platform Infrastructure (e.g. DNS, DR, SSL, Load balancing).Hands-on familiarity with Linux services and/or Windows services.Interest and understanding of containerization technologies and how they work.Interest and understanding in configuration management tooling, such as Ansible.Interest in working within an Agile/Scrum environment.Problem Solving and root cause analysis of issues in complex environments.Why work at Just Eat Takeaway.com?Just Eat Takeaway.com is a leading global online food delivery marketplace headquartered in Amsterdam and listed on the London Stock Exchange. We’ve built our business on having the widest choice available on our platform – connecting millions of customers with over 155,000 restaurants across 24 countries, with over 100 different cuisines from local independents to globally famous restaurants, available to order via our app and website.We provide the platform and tools to help independent restaurants move online and reach a significantly broader customer base, to generate increased orders and grow their businesses. We also provide the insights, advice, and support our growing community needs to satisfy customers and help raise standards across a vibrant takeaway sector.We’re built to deliver behind the scenes, too. To make Just Eat the great company it is, it takes a great team of people. Which is why all of our colleagues are welcomed into a diverse and inclusive workplace where they feel they can belong. We’re passionate about nurturing our people and offer a full programme of training and support to our employees, helping them to develop their careers in a way that suits them.No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, where you are from, your religious beliefs or your takeaway preferences, you could find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re a diverse and inclusive workplace that promotes a sense of belonging, allowing all of our people to bring their most colourful and complex selves to work every day.

Expected salary

Location

Bristol Area

Job date

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:08:00 GMT

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