Platform Engineering Manager: Scale & Reliability

Super; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Super is building the Playstack platform across Europe; we seek a people-and-delivery leader who will own the backend platform and scale its engineering team from 5 to 8+ engineers. You'll partner with two tech leads, hire and grow talent, align stakeholders, and drive platform reliability, observability, and adoption across internal engineering teams while co-owning with Infrastructure/SRE.

With breadth across distributed systems, Kafka streaming, Kubernetes, and key-value stores, you’ll shape

Qualifications

• Experience growing a backend platform team.

Responsibilities

• Hire and grow the team from 5 to 8+ engineers and establish seniority.
• Partner with two tech leads to own technical direction while managing people and delivery.
• Onboard new joiners and plan growth paths for junior engineers.
• Drive platform reliability and adoption; measure success by teams building on the platform.
• Own the relationship with Infrastructure/SRE and define operational ownership boundaries.

Skills

People leadership

Team growth

Platform leadership

Distributed systems

Go

Kubernetes

Kafka

SRE partnership

Architectural discussions

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Go

Job description

Super is building the Playstack platform across Europe; we seek a people-and-delivery leader who will own the backend platform and scale its engineering team from 5 to 8+ engineers. You'll partner with two tech leads, hire and grow talent, align stakeholders, and drive platform reliability, observability, and adoption across internal engineering teams while co-owning with Infrastructure/SRE.

With breadth across distributed systems, Kafka streaming, Kubernetes, and key-value stores, you’ll shape