Head of Platform

AI Chopping Block; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Career growth and learning

Ownership and autonomy

International environment

Job summary

Nebius, a Nasdaq-listed Amsterdam-based AI cloud platform company, seeks a Senior Platform Director to own and evolve the platform that sits between core infrastructure and developers. You will define the platform, drive its roadmap, and lead the team that builds and runs it.

You will ensure reliability, scalability, and developer experience while partnering with leadership to keep pace with business needs. Expect international collaboration and strategic impact.

Qualifications

• Proven track record building platform teams at scale.
• Ability to translate business needs into platform capabilities.
• Strong technical depth in compute orchestration and cloud-native apps.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a senior platform engineering team with high craft and discipline.
• Own platform strategy and end-to-end roadmap for compute, storage, and networking access.
• Define reliability targets (SLOs/SLAs) and drive improvements in availability and performance.
• Collaborate with infra, product, and security to ensure scalable platform alignment with business goals.
• Translate high level goals into structured platform initiatives with clear ownership.

Skills

Platform engineering

Kubernetes

Cloud-native architecture

Observability

CI/CD

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's or higher in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

About Nebius:

Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure.

Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI.

Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.

About the role

You will own and evolve the platform that sits betweenNebius'score infrastructure and the engineering teams and customers building on top of it. That means defining what the platform is, driving its roadmap, and leading the team that builds and runs it.

You are not maintaining a layer someone else designed. You are setting the direction for how Nebius exposes compute, storage, and networking to internal and external users — with a relentless focus on reliability, scalability, and developer experience. You partner closely with infrastructure, product, and engineering leadership to make sure the platform keeps pace with the business, and you hold the bar on what "production-ready" means. You bring technical depth and product thinking to a function that requires both.

This platform has momentum and significant ambition. The person who takes this role will help shape how it scales.

What you'll do

• Manageand develop a team of platform engineers, setting a high bar for craft, operational discipline, and delivery — while aligning closely with engineering and business leaders to ensure the platform roadmap reflects both technical and commercial priorities.

• Own the platform strategy and roadmap end-to-end — from developer tooling andcomputeorchestration to internal APIs, observability, and self-service capabilities for engineering teams building onNebiusinfrastructure.

• Define and uphold platform reliability standards. Own the SLOs and SLAs that matter to internal teams and external customers, and drive continuous improvement in availability, performance, and incident response.

• Partner with infrastructure, datacentreoperations, and product engineering to ensure the platform layer abstracts complexity effectively and evolves in step with the underlying infrastructure.

• Collaborate with engineering leads, security, compliance, and finance to translate business requirements into platform capabilities — ensuring the platform is not just technically sound, but commerciallyviableand compliant at scale.

• Lead trade-off conversations on scope, architecture, and resourcing. You are accountable for what ships, and you drive the decision-making rather than waiting for consensus to form.

• Translate ambiguous, high-level goals into structured platform initiatives with clear ownership, milestones, and measurable outcomes. Maintain visibility across the platform portfolio and communicate clearly on status and direction to leadership.

• Represent the platform credibly with senior engineering leaders, executives, and enterprise customers across multiple geographies. You are the voice of the platform.

• Triage escalations and production issues, distinguishing what the platform team owns from what should be routed elsewhere — and making sure both paths are fast.

What we're looking for

• A track recordof building and running platform engineering functions at scale — not justmaintainingwhat exists, but shipping meaningful improvements to reliability, developer experience, and capability.

• An entrepreneurial background. You have built something, stood up a new function, oroperatedin genuinely early or ambiguous environments where you had to create structure and standards rather than inherit them. Ambiguity does not slow you down.

• Deep technical fluency in platform and infrastructure engineering — compute orchestration (Kubernetes, bare metal), cloud-native architecture, observability, CI/CD, and internal developer platforms. You have built or operated systems at this layer, not just overseen them from a distance.

• Enough familiarity with datacentreinfrastructure to have credible conversations with both engineers and executive leadership on capacity, deployment sequencing, and operational trade-offs.

• Proven comfortoperatingwith senior technical and executive stakeholders. You have sat across the table from engineering leadership and held the room on hard architectural or resourcing decisions.

• Strong product and engineering judgement: you understand how platform capabilities translate into developer velocity and customer value, and what separates a platform that scales from one that becomes a bottleneck.

• Discipline inwhat you commit to. You state only what is confirmed, flag estimates clearly, and do not over-promise timelines or capabilities.

• Willingness to travel. This role requires senior presence across multiple geographies.

What you'll join

A small, senior teamoperatingat the intersection of AI infrastructure and platform engineering, with direct access to Nebius's senior leadership. The platform is active and growing. You will be shaping the platform engineering function at an early and consequential moment, with real opportunity to build a team as the portfolio scales.

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth and learning opportunities
• Flexibility and ownership
• Collaborative and innovative culture
• Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
• International environment and talented teams

What's it like to work at Nebius:

Fast moving- Bold thinking- Constant growth- Meaningful impact- Trust and real ownership- Opportunity to shape the future of AI

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Nebius is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.

If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.