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Principal Platform Engineer

Job

  • Level
    Lead
  • Job Feld
    IT, DevOps, Back End
  • Anstellung
    Vollzeit
  • Vertragsart
    Unbefristetes Dienstverhältnis
  • Ort
    Berlin
  • Arbeitsmodell
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Job Zusammenfassung

    In dieser Rolle gestaltest du die Plattform-Roadmap, entwickelst CI/CD-Pipelines und führst hochverfügbare Container-Anwendungen ein, während du Teams in Best Practices für Cloud- und Bare-Metal-Umgebungen anleitest.

    Job Technologien

    Deine Rolle im Team

    • Conductor is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to be a builder, systems thinker and a technical leader.
    • You will evolve our hybrid cloud and bare-metal platform, enabling product and engineering to deliver software faster and more reliably.
    • We run terabyte-scale Elasticsearch clusters, a high-volume CI/CD pipeline ecosystem, and production workloads across thousands of containers, with a strong focus on automation, observability, and resilience.
    • You are an excellent communicator and collaborator, able to align multiple teams and influence technical direction.
    • This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you will shape platform roadmap and best practices across teams, influencing how engineers design, deploy, and operate critical services that power multiple products and business domains.
    • Define the platform vision and deliver incrementally: Shape and execute platform initiatives across hybrid cloud and bare-metal environments in small, value-driven steps that improve usability and adoption.
    • Establish pragmatic standards for infrastructure, security, and operations, balancing consistency with flexibility.
    • Lead critical platform initiatives: Take ownership of high-impact platform projects, driving them end-to-end from design through implementation.
    • Level up platform engineering: Mentor and elevate platform engineers to grow their skills, raise the technical bar, and foster a culture of excellence in the team.
    • Drive technical decisions and standards: Influence design decisions and promote engineering best practices to build robust, scalable, and maintainable systems.
    • Enable self-service platform capabilities: Build and enhance self-service platform features and workflows to improve developer experience and standardized workflows across traditional, AI, and agentic use cases.
    • Accelerate Continuous Delivery: Streamline CI/CD to enable fast, reliable, and low-friction software delivery, minimizing manual toil and boosting developer velocity.
    • Lead Reliability and Observability Initiatives: Drive reliability and observability initiatives, leading postmortems and implementing SLOs, monitoring, and resilience patterns to strengthen platform stability.

    Unsere Erwartungen an dich

    Qualifikationen

    • Track record of applying a product mindset to platform engineering, understanding internal users, and solving systemic issues to enhance productivity and adoption.
    • Strong background in CI/CD, automation, container orchestration, and infrastructure tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Terraform).
    • Demonstrated ability to manage production systems end-to-end, combining operational ownership with technical guidance.
    • Applies enterprise-grade security and compliance practices while enabling innovation, ensuring the platform remains secure.

    Erfahrung

    • 16-20+ years of overall experience in platform, cloud, or infrastructure engineering, including hybrid cloud and bare-metal environments.
    • Hands-on experience in platform engineering environments, applying first-principles thinking, elevating team output and driving value.
    • Proven experience in both small startups and large, fast-moving enterprises, adapting quickly to diverse organizational dynamics.
    • Experience in operating high-scale distributed applications, with expertise in database technologies (SQL, NoSQL), Elasticsearch, caching layers, and large-scale data pipelines.

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    Job Standorte

    • Standort Berlin

      Deutschland

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  • Unternehmenstyp
    Digitale Agentur
  • Arbeitsmodell
    Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
  • Branche
    Werbung, Marketing, PR
  • Logo Conductor

    Principal Platform Engineer

    Ort
    Berlin
    Arbeitsmodell
    Hybrid, Onsite
    Diversität
    Für alle Personen geeignet (m/w/d)
    Nur Englisch
    Nur Englisch erforderlich

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