Lead Platform Engineer

Who you are

• This role is ideal for a highly collaborative engineer who thrives in a centralized platform role with a passion to identify & overcome system wide operational challenges by designing and implementing software engineering solutions that enable engineers to deliver change to production in a fast but stable manner
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of experience in a platform engineering, SRE or DevOps background
• Experience with cloud & infra concepts - E.G. AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog
• Experience with SaaS software development in distributed systems using programming languages such as Typescript, Java/Kotlin, Python
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions/GitOps tools)
• You have a high quality bar and lead by example regarding operational best practices
• You are data driven and are passionate about using metrics to define and evaluate your engineering design decisions
• You strike a balance between a strategic and tactical mindset. You are capable of working with your engineering manager to translate the platform's strategic vision into tactical, achievable objectives for the team
• You have excellent written and spoken English (level C1/C2 on the CEFR scale)
• Experience operating at scale in a high pace, rapid growth environment
• You never let a crisis go to waste, but instead learn from your mistakes and help your team to do the same
• You embrace feedback - no one is perfect, neither are we. So let’s make this an opportunity to praise and learn from each other
• Finally, you have a good sense of humor. Have fun with us, learn with us from mistakes and bring your good vibes!
• You have experience with or passion to embrace new ways of working through the adoption of AI powered workflows using agents, skills & agentic feedback loops
• Your platform experience doesn’t end with core infrastructure, but you are equally interested in adjacent concepts related to observability, database operations & networking
• You have experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS)

What the job involves

• Join us to shape the future of software in the underserved and high-impact HR technology industry
• Your work will have a direct and tangible impact on customers, offering ownership and the chance to make a meaningful difference. As we prepare for significant growth, you'll face exciting challenges and have the opportunity to influence our path toward becoming one of the world's leading tech companies
• As a Lead Platform Engineer (Production Engineering), you will play a key role in building and evolving platform solutions related to AWS account management, centralised infra resource management, continuous delivery and kubernetes cluster management & operations
• Define and manage the company's AWS account structure, organisation & permission boundaries. Maintaining foundational infrastructure while also actively monitoring cost & utilisation
• Define and manage central infrastructure as code solutions that enable product teams to safely provision the infra resources they need while enforcing standardisation without causing bottlenecks
• Support the SDLC at Personio by defining, maintaining and operating GitOps based continuous delivery pipelines that support all worklords across all environments
• Operate and maintain EKS clusters across all environments and runtime integrations for all workloads
• Work hand-in-hand with developer experience, security & product teams to ensure the lower level platform meets the needs they outline to build, test & deploy changes across multiple environments
• Document platform capabilities and run internal training sessions where necessary
• Drive technical excellence with a design led mindset. Collaborate with cross-functional teams across the engineering organisation with the aim to simplify our platform architecture, build a golden path and help tackle technical debt
• Take ownership of operational responsibilities for platform services within your domain, including on-call participation

Benefits

• Receive a competitive reward package – reevaluated each year – that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
• Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!)
• Make an impact on the environment and society with Impact Days
• Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities with PersonioCares
• Find your best way to work with our office-led, remote-friendly PersonioFlex! Most teams offer a roughly 50% remote, 50% in-office working framework
• Connect with your fellow Personios at regular company and team events like All Company Culture Week and local year-end celebrations
• Engage in a high-impact working environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes