Senior Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

About your tasks:

DevEx & Platform Ownership: 

• Design, implement, and maintain core components of the Internal Developer Platform, covering CI/CD, self-service, delivery pipelines, service templates, golden paths, developer tooling, internal APIs, observability integrations, and cloud/runtime abstractions. Build and evolve opinionated golden paths that cover the majority of use cases, making explicit trade-offs between flexibility, standardization, and long-term maintainability.
• Translate platform product vision and roadmap into concrete, high-quality engineering solutions with strong defaults and clear boundaries.
• Own platform defaults end-to-end. All defaults must be secure, observable, compliant, cost-aware, and production-ready without requiring additional work from consuming teams.
• Be accountable for platform adoption from an engineering perspective, including usability, documentation quality, migration support, and deprecations.

DevOps & Platform Engineering:

• Contribute to platform-level architectural decisions that optimize overall system throughput, even when this conflicts with local team preferences.
• Ensure platform capabilities are designed for reliability, observability, security, and compliance by default.

Execution & Continuous Improvement:

• Continuously improve developer workflows by reducing lead time, failure rates, onboarding effort, and cognitive load, guided by DevEx and flow metrics.
• Challenge existing tooling, patterns, and assumptions when they no longer serve the needs of scale, safety, or developer productivity.
• Act as a force multiplier for engineering teams by abstracting complexity while preserving transparency and debuggability.

Collaboration & Leadership:

• Partner closely with Product Managers, SREs, Security, and Product Engineering teams to ensure platform capabilities align with delivery, reliability, and compliance needs.
• Influence engineering teams through clear technical direction, strong defaults, and well-reasoned trade-offs rather than mandates.