Senior Platform Engineer – Remote, Self-Serve Dev Platforms

Mbianchi; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Mbianchi seeks a staff-level engineer to own the internal developer platform and drive outcomes across Kubernetes, cloud infra, and tooling. You will stay hands-on with APIs and tooling while guiding cross-team decisions and improving adoption.

You will shape the platform roadmap, build self-service capabilities, and ensure secure, observable, and scalable product infrastructure. This role emphasizes developer-centric design and practical leadership.

Qualifications

• Deep production experience with Kubernetes and at least one major public cloud; multi-cloud experience is useful when it comes with restraint.
• Strong software engineering in Go, Python, TypeScript, or Java, including API and distributed-system design.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform or OpenTofu, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and secure software supply chains.
• A record of building platforms for other engineers and improving adoption, not only operating infrastructure.
• Clear technical writing, architecture communication, and the ability to lead decisions across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform architecture and roadmap with a product mindset, balancing developer experience, reliability, security, and cost.
• Build self-service APIs, CLIs, templates, and golden paths for provisioning environments, shipping software, and operating services.
• Standardize infrastructure as code, GitOps, CI/CD, secrets, policy, observability, and Kubernetes lifecycle practices without hiding useful escape hatches.
• Interview platform users, measure adoption and lead time, and remove friction based on evidence rather than platform-team intuition.
• Mentor engineers and influence application, security, SRE, and product teams without relying on hierarchy.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Python

TypeScript

Java

API design

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

GitOps

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

Mbianchi seeks a staff-level engineer to own the internal developer platform and drive outcomes across Kubernetes, cloud infra, and tooling. You will stay hands-on with APIs and tooling while guiding cross-team decisions and improving adoption.

You will shape the platform roadmap, build self-service capabilities, and ensure secure, observable, and scalable product infrastructure. This role emphasizes developer-centric design and practical leadership.