Team Lead, Infrastructure
GermanyFull-TimeLead
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Required Skills
- AWSNode.jsPythonGCPKubernetesGoHelmDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong expertise in backend or systems programming (Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Python, or JavaScript).
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, including Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Helm, and GitOps practices.
- 3+ years of leadership experience managing distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones.
- Proven experience operating and scaling large Kubernetes environments (1000+ nodes, 30k+ pods).
- Strong understanding of distributed systems design, high availability architectures, and scalability principles.
- Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL in production environments.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures using systems such as Kafka or NATS.
- Experience designing or extending Kubernetes-based platforms, including operators, controllers, or custom primitives.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to balance hands-on engineering with strategic leadership and team development.
Responsibilities
- Lead a distributed team of engineers, providing technical direction, architectural guidance, and day-to-day operational oversight.
- Own and evolve the technical roadmap for the developer sandbox platform in alignment with broader organizational objectives.
- Maintain and improve the stability, scalability, and reliability of a large-scale Kubernetes-based infrastructure platform.
- Design and implement improvements to sandbox provisioning, resource efficiency, observability, and self-service capabilities.
- Make key architectural decisions related to scalability, performance, cost optimization, and system resilience.
- Manage on-call rotations and ensure strong incident response practices and operational excellence.
- Collaborate closely with DevOps, DBAs, InfoSec, and other engineering teams to align infrastructure goals.
- Drive cross-functional initiatives and ensure successful delivery of complex, multi-team technical projects.
- Foster engineering excellence through code reviews, best practices, and continuous improvement.
- Participate in hiring, performance management, and mentorship to grow and strengthen the team.
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