Principal Platform Engineer

Conductor; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 130.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Conductor is looking for a Principal Platform Engineer in Berlin to lead platform initiatives and enhance CI/CD practices. The role focuses on improving usability and adoption across hybrid cloud and bare-metal environments.

The successful candidate will have extensive platform engineering experience, mentor team members, and influence technical direction. The base salary for this role ranges from €130,000 to €160,000.

Qualifikationen

• 16–20+ years of experience in platform engineering.
• Proven experience in both startups and large enterprises.
• Background in CI/CD, automation, and container orchestration.

Aufgaben

• Define platform vision and deliver incrementally.
• Lead critical platform initiatives from design to implementation.
• Mentor platform engineers to enhance skills and technical excellence.
• Drive technical decisions and promote best practices.

Kenntnisse

Platform engineering

CI/CD

Container orchestration

Automation

Infrastructure tooling

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

ArgoCD

Jobbeschreibung

About Conductor

Conductor is the leading enterprise AEO platform. Today’s top enterprise brands use Conductor to grow authority and visibility in both AI and traditional search engines. From tracking visibility in LLMs to real‑time monitoring of technical site health and scaled AI content creation, Conductor provides a single source of truth that fuels digital growth—all from one platform.

Conductor is a mission‑driven company with a commitment to innovation, customer success, and culture. For Conductor, success is improving the lives of everyone in our orbit—our customers, our customers’ customers, our employee‑owners, and our communities.

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.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• 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 post‑mortems and implementing SLOs, monitoring, and resilience patterns to strengthen platform stability.

Who You Are (Required Skills/Abilities)

• 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.
• 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.
• Experience in operating high‑scale distributed applications, with expertise in database technologies (SQL, NoSQL), Elasticsearch, caching layers, and large‑scale data pipelines.

Compensation

Conductor maintains competitive, performance‑based compensation programs. The Berlin base salary range for this role is currently 130,000 – 160,000 euro.

Conductor LLC is an equal‑opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Bringing in diverse perspectives and challenging our assumptions is the clear key to growth; it drives innovation, creativity, faster problem‑solving, and stronger decision making. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, train, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. Conductor does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, or other characteristics protected by state or federal law or local ordinance. In addition, it is the policy of Conductor to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances where a particular employee works.