Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Team

Role overview

An engineering leadership role owning the infrastructure foundation that powers personalization experiences for hundreds of millions of end users across global e-commerce customers. The position combines people management with deep technical ownership of cloud, Kubernetes, databases, and observability platforms serving hundreds of internal application engineers.

Responsibilities

- Hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing infrastructure engineering team and run performance and career development - Organize team rituals including standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives - Own strategy and execution for Google Cloud Platform services and cloud architecture - Operate and evolve the Kubernetes platform, including cluster strategy, upgrades, and policy enforcement - Ensure database reliability, performance, backup, restore, and disaster recovery - Build and maintain a unified observability stack covering logs, metrics, traces, alerting, and dashboards - Drive reliability and operational excellence through SLOs, SLIs, incident management, postmortems, and automation - Partner with security and compliance on access control, data protection, and auditability - Govern cloud cost through monitoring, tagging, allocation, and optimization initiatives

Requirements

- Proven experience leading and growing infrastructure or platform engineering teams - Deep hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform services, cloud architecture, and IAM guardrails - Strong Kubernetes platform operations experience including deployment patterns and CI/CD integration - Experience with production database operations, capacity planning, and migration strategies - Familiarity with observability tooling for metrics, logs, and traces - Ability to partner with product, application engineering, and security teams at scale

Nice to have

- Experience in e-commerce, personalization, or other high-scale SaaS environments

Benefits and work setup

- Full-time role based in Central European offices (Bratislava, Brno, or Prague) or remote - Restricted stock units or stock options depending on role, seniority, and location - Company performance bonus and employee referral bonus up to $3,000 - Up to 5 paid volunteering days per year - Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for primary caregivers - $1,500 annual professional education budget - Mental health support via an employee assistance program and a meditation and sleep app - Quarterly company-wide disconnect day