Senior Principal Platform Lead - AI & Developer Experience

IFS; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS in Madrid is seeking a Senior Principal Platform Lead for AI & Agentic Systems to own and drive the Internal Developer Platform strategy. You will work hands-on, building greenfield capabilities, automating by default, and shaping developer experiences at scale across NGA and IFS product teams.

You will demonstrate deep platform engineering expertise across Kubernetes, Go, React/Next.js, and data/observability tooling, guiding others while personally delivering critical components that

Qualifications

• 8+ years in platform, infrastructure, or developer-tooling engineering.
• Experience owning an IDP or developer portal end-to-end (Backstage, Port, Cortex, or equivalent).
• Hands-on production Kubernetes experience, including deployment and on-call.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the IDP vision, roadmap, and end-to-end execution at IFS, including self-service scaffolding, golden paths, CI/CD integration, and developer portals.
• Own the Nexus platform developer experience from service creation to production observability.
• Collaborate with Kairos, Nexus, Auth, Base Tech, and product teams to deliver cohesive experiences.
• Define platform standards and drive measurable adoption (onboarding time, self-service completion, platform NPS).
• Integrate authentication and authorization services into the IDP self-service model.
• Mentor Principal and Senior platform engineers to raise the bar for DX at IFS.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

React/Next.js

Kafka/RedPanda

PostgreSQL

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Backstage/Developer portal

Terraform

Crossplane

AKS

Job description

IFS in Madrid is seeking a Senior Principal Platform Lead for AI & Agentic Systems to own and drive the Internal Developer Platform strategy. You will work hands-on, building greenfield capabilities, automating by default, and shaping developer experiences at scale across NGA and IFS product teams.

You will demonstrate deep platform engineering expertise across Kubernetes, Go, React/Next.js, and data/observability tooling, guiding others while personally delivering critical components that