Platform Engineering Lead for AI‑Driven DevOps

Lever, Inc.; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Global remote work

High ownership culture

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer based in the Netherlands. This hands-on technical leader will shape platform foundations, CI/CD, and secure software delivery for product teams and AI coding agents.

The role covers developer experience, infrastructure, observability, testing, and security, with a focus on standardization, reusable tooling, and scalable workflows across the engineering org. Remote-friendly and high-ownership culture.

Qualifications

• Significant production-grade systems experience.
• Experience designing internal platforms with standardization vs. flexibility.
• Expertise in CI/CD, IaC, testing, observability and secure delivery.
• Shift-left security and SecDevOps principles.
• Product-oriented mindset toward internal platforms and AI agents.
• Hands-on technical leadership while contributing to code, infra, and pipelines.
• Strong systems thinking and cross-team collaboration.
• Experience with end-to-end testing frameworks such as Playwright and scaling automated testing environments.

Responsibilities

• Shape the platform and infrastructure foundations that product teams build and operate their services on, balancing standardization with team autonomy.
• Improve the complete engineering development loop, including local development, CI/CD, deployment processes, production feedback, and developer workflows.
• Define and drive engineering standards for automated testing, infrastructure as code, observability, reliability, and secure software delivery, while helping product teams adopt them effectively.
• Build shared tooling, templates, reusable components, and golden paths that reduce friction and provide practical leverage across the engineering organization.
• Own secure delivery practices end to end by integrating security scanning, secrets management, dependency controls, software supply‑chain protections, and penetration‑testing workflows into core development and delivery pipelines.
• Monitor and respond to the evolving security landscape, particularly as AI coding agents change how vulnerabilities are introduced, discovered, and potentially exploited.
• Improve repositories, development conventions, tooling, documentation, test coverage, and feedback loops so AI coding agents can navigate codebases efficiently and produce reliable results.
• Measure the effectiveness of platform initiatives through DORA metrics and qualitative feedback from engineering teams, using those insights to continuously improve the developer experience.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership by setting direction while remaining deeply involved in code, infrastructure, pipelines, and tooling.

Skills

Software engineering

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Security

Developer tooling

AI tooling

Tools

Playwright

Terraform

Job description

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer based in the Netherlands. This hands-on technical leader will shape platform foundations, CI/CD, and secure software delivery for product teams and AI coding agents.

The role covers developer experience, infrastructure, observability, testing, and security, with a focus on standardization, reusable tooling, and scalable workflows across the engineering org. Remote-friendly and high-ownership culture.