Engineering Manager, Infrastructure - Infrastructure Platform

GetYourGuide; Zurich; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual personal growth budget

Work from anywhere for 30 days per year

Monthly transportation and fitness budget

Discounts on GetYourGuide activities

Language reimbursement program

Health and wellness benefits

Job summary

GetYourGuide is seeking a leader for the Infrastructure Platform team in Canada, Ontario. You will be responsible for managing engineering hiring and performance, driving delivery, and enhancing our cloud-based platform.

Ideal candidates have strong technical backgrounds in platforms like AWS and Kubernetes, with a passion for coaching and team development. This role offers a hybrid working approach and numerous benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience in a cloud native platform engineering environment required.
• Passion for people and coaching is essential.
• Experience in scale-up or high-growth environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage hiring and performance topics for engineering.
• Shape roadmap and portfolio allocation with stakeholders.
• Build and maintain engineering platform abstractions.

Skills

Strong sense of ownership

Cloud native platform engineering

Coaching and supporting engineers

Engineering principles advocacy

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Istio

Job description

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Team mission

The Infrastructure Platform team builds, automates, and enhances the cloud and container‑based platform and datastores that underpin every product team at GetYourGuide. We are "engineers for the engineers" — designing the abstractions, paved paths, and self‑service tooling that let other teams ship safely and quickly without becoming experts in the underlying systems. Our stack is built on AWS, Kubernetes, and Istio. Our aim is to provide a reliable, opinionated platform that lets teams move fast, take risks, and experiment with confidence.

Your mission

• Be responsible for all hiring and performance management topics on the Engineering side, helping your engineers reach their full potential.
• Partner closely with your peers and stakeholders to shape the roadmap and portfolio allocation, and drive high‑impact delivery.
• Build and maintain opinionated paved paths and abstraction layers for mission teams.
• Champion platform engineering principles and operational excellence across the wider engineering organization.

Your toolkit

• You have a strong sense of ownership, ensuring that technical and project plans are aligned with your stakeholders and team members for delivery.
• Enjoy approaching complex topics with an open mind and eye for simplicity.
• Have a passion for people, supporting and coaching your engineers without going into micromanagement mode.
• Strong technical experience in a cloud native platform engineering environment.

Extras that give you an edge

• Experience working in a scale‑up or high‑growth environment, taking projects from zero to one and scaling them across an organization.
• Experience building platforms for 500+ engineer organizations.
• Experience operating as a technical product manager/owner, particularly for internal platform products serving engineering customers.

How We’ll Make Your Career Journey Extraordinary

• Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs for continuous learning and development.
• Work from anywhere in the world for 30 days per year.
• A hybrid working approach with three days of in‑office collaboration (Mon, Tue, Thur) and two days of optional at‑home focus time.
• Opportunities to collaborate and socialize with team members through quarterly team events and yearly company‑wide events.
• Monthly transportation and fitness budget.
• Discounts for you, your friends, and family on GetYourGuide activities.
• Language reimbursement program.
• Health and wellness benefits.

We are an equal opportunities employer

Our commitment is that every qualified person will be evaluated according to their skills, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion. Please refrain from including your picture and age with your application.