Engineering Manager - SRE & Platform

Accountabilities

• • Lead and develop a team of 6–8 platform and reliability engineers, providing technical direction, coaching and clear priorities.
  • Design, build and operate infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments, including networking, infrastructure-as-code, containerization and cost management.
  • Own deployment pipelines, automation, feature flag systems and progressive delivery practices.
  • Define and maintain monitoring standards covering logging, metrics and alerting.
  • Establish service levels and lead incident response and management activities.
  • Participate directly in 24/7 on-call operations as an engineer and remain close to production reliability.
  • Own the platform security framework, including vulnerability management, patching and framework and dependency upgrades.
  • Ensure adherence to compliance requirements through audit logging, data residency controls and appropriate access management.
  • Improve developer experience through internal tooling, self-service workflows and standardized delivery paths.
  • Partner closely with software engineering and product teams to identify technical constraints early, align priorities and keep delivery moving.
  • Own hiring activities for the team, including identifying role requirements, conducting and calibrating interviews and making final hiring recommendations.
  • Run the performance management cycle, including setting expectations, providing regular feedback, conducting formal reviews and addressing underperformance.
  • Create individualized career development paths, including growth plans, promotion cases and mentorship.
  • Empower engineers to own their technical domains and make decisions with appropriate autonomy.

  Requirements:

  • Experience working both as an engineer and people manager, or equivalent experience as a senior/staff engineer with significant mentoring and leadership responsibilities.
  • Hands-on platform engineering or DevOps experience in production-scale environments, including CI/CD, cloud services, monitoring and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Proven experience owning production reliability, including on-call operations, incident response and service-level objectives.
  • Experience improving developer experience through internal tooling, self-service platforms or standardized engineering workflows.
  • 3+ years of direct engineering management experience, with ownership of hiring, performance management and career development.
  • Strong technical judgment and the ability to remain hands-on while providing direction and support to experienced engineers.
  • Collaborative leadership style, with the ability to build trust through partnership rather than control.
  • Experience in a fast-growing, global SaaS environment is highly desirable.
  • Knowledge of network engineering and DNS administration is a plus.
  • Experience with feature-flag-based deployments is a plus.
  • Security engineering experience, including vulnerability management and framework or dependency upgrade programs, is beneficial.
  • Experience working in regulated industries is an advantage.
  • Ability to work remotely from Europe, as applications from outside Europe are not considered.

  Benefits:

  • Fully remote position for candidates based in Europe.
  • Competitive compensation and benefits.
  • Opportunity to lead a team of 6–8 engineers with significant technical and people leadership responsibility.
  • Hands-on ownership of infrastructure, reliability, security and developer experience.
  • Opportunity to influence platform architecture and engineering practices across a growing SaaS environment.
  • Meaningful work within the digital healthcare technology sector.
  • Learning and professional development opportunities.
  • Access to the tools and technologies needed to perform the role effectively.
  • Collaboration with talented colleagues across an international, remote-first organization.
  • Frequent company events and opportunities to connect with colleagues around the world.
  • High-autonomy environment focused on continuous improvement, collaboration and engineering ownership.