Senior Director of Platform Engineering

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Director of Platform Engineering (hands-on engineering leadership)
• Focus: Base Platform Infrastructure (Kubernetes, networking, persistence, middleware)

Description

Lead engineering for the organization’s Base Platform Infrastructure, setting the strategic technical direction and owning engineering execution. Own technical decisions that define reliability, scalability, and security, and lead a team of Platform and Software Engineers to build and operate the platform at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the strategic technical direction of the base platform, including platform design, tooling selection, and engineering patterns
• Define and enforce engineering standards, best practices, and quality gates
• Lead design and implementation of core components: Kubernetes cluster configuration, network topology, storage/persistence layers, and middleware
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps adoption for automation, reproducibility, and auditability
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend evidence-based adoption
• Build for resilience, observability, operability, and security by design
• Own end-to-end reliability, performance, and security posture
• Define and uphold SLOs/SLIs and continuously improve platform health
• Lead incident management and on-call culture
• Ensure safe delivery via CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and progressive rollouts
• Champion observability: logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting
• Communicate technical strategy and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborate with peer R&D leaders and provide accurate technical input to Product and Program Management
• Surface technical risks and platform limitations early with well-reasoned mitigation proposals

Requirements

• B.Sc. degree in a technical discipline (IT, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related)
• Proven deep hands-on engineering experience in cloud environments, including operational, security, reliability, and cost ownership
• Expert knowledge of modern cloud-native technologies, including mandatory expert Kubernetes experience
• Strong hands-on experience with major public cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP acceptable) and core services
• Deep command of GitOps principles and IaC with practical experience using Git, Terraform, and CI/CD tooling
• Strong decision-making and technical communication skills, including mediating technical disagreements
• Ability to lead effectively in a fast-paced setting, triage and prioritize multiple concurrent platform priorities

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation package, including health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits
• Pay transparency: annual base salary range of zł531,100.00 - zł671,650.00 (full-time), with potential to progress beyond the range through sustained performance and demonstrated success; may include variable compensation (performance bonus or commission-based plan) and a long-term incentive
• Equal opportunity employer with an accessible recruitment process, including support for reasonable accommodations