Staff Engineer - Platform Engineering

the LEGO Group; København; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Job summary

The LEGO Group in Copenhagen is seeking a Staff Engineer to shape the platform engineering direction across cloud, container, edge, and observability. You will align architecture and standards while enabling scalable product platforms.

You will partner with Lead Engineers and Engineering Directors to push architectural consistency, reduce technical debt, and drive platform adoption across Digital Technology in a hybrid work setting.

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.

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.
• Strengthen engineering excellence across cloud, platform, and infrastructure domains.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Platform engineering

Distributed systems

Tech direction/roadmaps

FinOps

Observability

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.

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.

What’s in it for you?

• 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 rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.