Founding Engineering Manager, Developer Experience - Remote

Pliant; España; Remote; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly mobility benefit

Wellhub Membership

Pliant Card with monthly productcredit

Remote work flexibility

Job summary

Pliant is seeking an Engineering Manager - Developer Experience to define and lead a brand-new platform team focused on enabling engineers to be productive from day one. You’ll own the golden path and CI/CD patterns on Kubernetes, and coach a team as it scales.

You will start hands-on, then hire and shape the team, driving AI-assisted development tooling and a high-trust DX culture across product squads. This is a founding leadership role with broad impact.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience with Python, including 2+ years in leadership/management.
• Hands-on experience building CI/CD systems and internal developer portals.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes-based platforms, including cluster APIs and RBAC.
• Product mindset for internal tooling and proven hiring experience.
• Security-first thinking and PCI DSS/SOC2 familiarity (fintech).
• Willingness to read stack traces, follow build logs, and diagnose config issues.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead a new Developer Experience platform engineering team.
• Own the golden path, CI/CD patterns, and onboarding flows to production.
• Standardise AI-assisted development tooling across the company.
• Hire and build the team from zero; set technical bar and culture.
• Collaborate with product teams on DX improvements.

Skills

Python

Leadership

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Helm

AI tooling

Debugging

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Spacelift

Datadog

AWS

Job description

Pliant is seeking an Engineering Manager - Developer Experience to define and lead a brand-new platform team focused on enabling engineers to be productive from day one. You’ll own the golden path and CI/CD patterns on Kubernetes, and coach a team as it scales.

You will start hands-on, then hire and shape the team, driving AI-assisted development tooling and a high-trust DX culture across product squads. This is a founding leadership role with broad impact.