Senior Platform Lead: AI-Driven Developer Experience

IFS; Madrid; Ibrido; EUR 90.000 - 150.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

IFS is building the next generation of AI-native enterprise software. This Senior Principal Platform Lead role focuses on owning the Internal Developer Platform, setting strategy, and delivering golden paths.

It is hands-on, not management, and requires writing production-grade code and leading by example across a large, distributed engineering organisation. You will collaborate with NGA product teams and R&D, shape platform standards, and drive adoption with measurable metrics.

Competenze

• 8+ years in platform, infrastructure, or developer-tooling engineering.
• Ownership of an IDP/Developer Portal end-to-end.
• Production experience with Kubernetes at enterprise scale.
• Hands-on architectural thinking and delivery.

Mansioni

• Own the IDP vision, roadmap, and end-to-end execution.
• Define platform standards to make the right way the easy way.
• Drive measurable adoption: self-service, time-to-first-deployment, platform metrics.
• Collaborate with NGA product teams and R&D to understand and fix pain points.
• Mentor and guide engineers across a distributed organisation.

Conoscenze

Platform engineering

Senior IC / technical lead

Kubernetes in production

Terraform / Crossplane

Backstage / IDP tooling

Strumenti

Backstage

Port

Cortex

Terraform

Crossplane

CI/CD pipelines

Descrizione del lavoro

IFS is building the next generation of AI-native enterprise software. This Senior Principal Platform Lead role focuses on owning the Internal Developer Platform, setting strategy, and delivering golden paths.

It is hands-on, not management, and requires writing production-grade code and leading by example across a large, distributed engineering organisation. You will collaborate with NGA product teams and R&D, shape platform standards, and drive adoption with measurable metrics.