Platform Core Engineering Manager: Terraform & Kubernetes

Pliant; Spain; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

Competitive remuneration

OS choice: Windows or Mac

Flat hierarchy

Job summary

Pliant is building core corporate payment infrastructure and is seeking an Engineering Manager for Platform Core. You will own Terraform and AWS foundations, guide the internal product roadmap, and shepherd the ECS/Fargate to Kubernetes migration. You’ll work closely with Security and future SRE teams while growing the platform’s capabilities.

The role emphasizes leadership, scalable architecture, and cross‑team collaboration in a dynamic fintech environment with remote work options.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years in software or infra engineering with at least 3 years of direct people management.
• Hands-on depth with Terraform, multi-account AWS, and container or serverless compute in production.
• Experience running internal platforms used daily by other teams with strong incident/change management.

Responsibilities

• Own the Platform Core roadmap including Terraform infra, multi-account AWS, and IAM/networking foundations.
• Operate Platform Core as an internal product with guardrails and compliance checks for other teams.
• Collaborate with Security Engineering to bake access controls and compliance in from the start.
• Lead the ECS/Fargate to Kubernetes migration to completion.

Skills

Terraform

AWS multi-account

Kubernetes

Datadog

People management

Security & compliance

AI tools

Tools

Spacelift

Job description

Pliant is building core corporate payment infrastructure and is seeking an Engineering Manager for Platform Core. You will own Terraform and AWS foundations, guide the internal product roadmap, and shepherd the ECS/Fargate to Kubernetes migration. You’ll work closely with Security and future SRE teams while growing the platform’s capabilities.

The role emphasizes leadership, scalable architecture, and cross‑team collaboration in a dynamic fintech environment with remote work options.