Senior Principal Platform Lead || AI & Agentic Systems

IFS; Dublin; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS is seeking a Senior Principal Platform Lead for AI & Agentic Systems to define and build our Internal Developer Platform. This is a hands-on, IC role focused on delivering a greenfield platform with automations and scalable tooling.

You will own the platform vision, drive implementation through code, and articulate value to both technical and non-technical stakeholders across product and engineering leadership.

Qualifications

• Hands-on senior platform engineer who writes a lot of code and automates by default.
• Deep experience building developer platforms and tooling.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the Internal Developer Platform direction.
• Build and own the platform, pipelines, and tooling in a greenfield project.
• Communicate platform value to product managers and engineers.

Skills

Coding

Platform engineering

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Senior Principal Platform Lead || AI & Agentic Systems

• Full-time

This is one of the most senior individual contributor roles in platform engineering at IFS. You will set the direction for our Internal Developer Platform and then build it. You will be owning the vision and executing it.

So please note that before you apply, you should be a hands‑on Senior Principal Platform Engineer who builds through code and automates by default. Last week you would have been writing a lot of code!

This is a greenfield build: no Internal Developer Platform, no tooling chosen, no templates written, and no roadmap waiting for you. This is an individual contributor role, not a management one — you will not have a team to delegate to, and running pipelines and infrastructure for other teams is not the same as giving them something they can serve themselves with. We want to understand what you personally built that other engineers use without coming to you.

You will also be making the case for this platform to product managers and engineering leaders, not just engineers, and you will need to do it in plain language. If you cannot explain what you have built to someone non‑technical, this