Engineering Manager, Platform & DevEx — Amsterdam

United States Digital Space LLC; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily catered lunches

Commuting reimbursement

25 vacation days

Health insurance

Pension plan

Equity program

Employee Assistance Program

Parental leave

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is building a PSI hub in Amsterdam and seeks a seasoned platform engineering leader to own the platform roadmap, drive strategy, and lead a global team of platform engineers. You will shape developer experience, tooling, and observability for hundreds of engineers.

You will also mentor engineers across time zones, contribute to long-term strategy, and help cultivate a strong Amsterdam engineering culture with remote collaboration and global alignment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time building developer platforms, internal tooling, or infrastructure that other engineers depend on
• 3+ years as an engineering manager, including experience owning a technical roadmap with high autonomy
• Deep technical expertise in modern developer platform work: CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions preferred), container orchestration (Kubernetes preferred), build tooling across multiple languages, API gateway and service communication patterns (GraphQL, gRPC), IAM, and observability
• Strong product instincts applied to internal users — a track record of identifying the right problems to solve, not just executing a backlog that someone else built
• Experience managing in a distributed, multinational engineering organization. You communicate clearly across time zones, build trust without constant in-person contact, and stay closely aligned with remote leadership
• Excellent communication. You can write a clear strategy doc, run a productive design review, and represent your team's work credibly to senior leadership and cross-functional partners

Responsibilities

• Own the developer platform roadmap. You are the primary idea generator. You identify what's slowing engineers down, what's highest-leverage to fix, and what the platform needs to look like in 12-18 months. You will drive prioritization and expect to be largely trusted on those calls.
• Lead a team of platform engineers building and evolving the tools, systems, and paved paths that hundreds of product engineers rely on every day: CI/CD pipelines, build tooling, developer experience, and observability.
• Stay close to the ground. You dogfood the platform, run developer interviews, and bring firsthand product instincts to every prioritization decision.
• Drive execution. You are hands-on enough to engage directly with the hard problems, review technical designs with genuine depth, and help your team find the right solutions.
• Contribute to company-wide planning, cross-team decisions, and the long-term strategy of the combined platform, security, and infrastructure organization.
• Help build the Amsterdam engineering culture: hiring, onboarding, team rituals, and the day-to-day environment that makes engineers want to do their best work.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering management

Developer platform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

GraphQL

gRPC

IAM

Observability

Product instincts

Distributed teams

Communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is building a PSI hub in Amsterdam and seeks a seasoned platform engineering leader to own the platform roadmap, drive strategy, and lead a global team of platform engineers. You will shape developer experience, tooling, and observability for hundreds of engineers.

You will also mentor engineers across time zones, contribute to long-term strategy, and help cultivate a strong Amsterdam engineering culture with remote collaboration and global alignment.