Requirements

• 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.
• 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.

What you'll be doing

• 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.

Perks and Benefits

• 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.