Staff Engineer - Platform Engineering

lego; København; Hybrid; DKK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Insurances

Wellbeing

Colleague Discount

Bonus

Job summary

LEGO Group in Copenhagen is seeking a Staff Engineer - Platform Engineering to shape technical direction across cloud enablement, container, edge, observability, and hosting platforms, aligning architecture with product teams. You will lead across multiple products, drive platform adoption at scale, mentor engineers, and help modernize infrastructure while reducing debt.

This role sits in the Digital Platforms & Infrastructure organization with a hybrid work model and opportunities to influence

Qualifications

• Delivered cloud platform architecture across enterprise-scale environments.
• Led platform engineering capabilities across multiple teams or products.
• Established technical direction, standards, or architecture roadmaps across complex landscapes.

Responsibilities

• Establish clear technical direction across the Platform Engineering capability portfolio.
• Increase alignment across Cloud Enablement, Container Platform, Edge Platform, Observability, and Hosting Platforms.
• Improve architectural consistency and platform adoption across Digital Technology.
• Support Lead Engineers in executing strategic technology decisions.
• Help modernize platform infrastructure while reducing technical debt.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Platform engineering

Distributed systems

Architecture roadmaps

Job description

Job Description

Just imagine shaping the technical direction behind the platforms that help engineering teams build, operate, and scale digital products across Digital Technology. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Staff Engineer - Platform Engineering, you'll drive technical direction across a portfolio of platform capabilities including Cloud Enablement, Container Platform, Edge Platform, Observability, and Hosting Platforms. You'll connect long-term technical strategy with practical execution, helping engineering teams align on architecture, standards, and platform evolution. Working across multiple products and product families, you'll identify opportunities for greater consistency, enable platform adoption at scale, and strengthen technical leadership across the LEGO® Group's Digital Platforms & Infrastructure organization.

Required Qualifications

• Delivered cloud platform architecture across enterprise-scale environments
• Built platform engineering capabilities that support multiple engineering teams or products.
• Led distributed systems and infrastructure engineering initiatives with measurable impact.
• Established technical direction, standards, or architecture roadmaps across complex technology landscapes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Applied FinOps practices to improve cloud governance and efficiency.
• Developed or enhanced observability and telemetry platforms supporting large-scale operations.

What you'll build

• Establish clear technical direction across the Platform Engineering capability portfolio.
• Increase alignment across Cloud Enablement, Container Platform, Edge Platform, Observability, and Hosting Platforms.
• Improve architectural consistency and platform adoption across Digital Technology.
• Support Lead Engineers in executing strategic technology decisions.
• Help modernize platform infrastructure while reducing technical debt.
• Strengthen engineering excellence across cloud, platform, and infrastructure domains.

If you've worked in a role where you influenced architecture decisions across multiple products, coordinated platform strategies, and translated long-term technology vision into practical engineering outcomes, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to connect strategy with execution and create alignment across a broad technical landscape.

Life on the team

You’ll join DX & Cloud Foundation within Digital Platforms & Infrastructure. The team provides the foundations that enable engineering teams across Digital Technology to build, operate, and scale digital products effectively. We work in a hybrid rhythm across locations and disciplines, staying connected through capability communities, architecture forums, planning processes, and close collaboration with engineering leaders and product teams. You’ll have opportunities to coach others, guide organizational changes, apply systems thinking, and build trusted partnerships across teams. Knowledge sharing, collaboration, and continuous improvement are part of how we work every day.

This position will be in our LEGO® Hub in Copenhagen, soon moving to Postbyen. The work environment is exciting, inspiring, and flexible - and we like to have fun along the way!

What success looks like

Success means becoming a trusted technical leader across Platform Engineering capabilities and helping teams adopt architecture decisions consistently. You’ll contribute to expanding cloud and platform capabilities, advancing observability and operational excellence initiatives, improving engineering productivity, and evolving cloud governance and platform standards. Along the way, you’ll work closely with Principal Engineers, Lead Engineers, and Engineering Directors to shape the future of platform engineering across Digital Technology.

Please note: If you require any reasonable accommodation or adjustments throughout the application process, please let us know. We will work with you to meet your needs.

This position is Senior Manager Specialist Skyline. Relocation support is not offered.

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What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

• Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances - All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
• Colleague Discount - We know you’ll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you’ll be