Director of Platform Engineering

Kyriba Corp.; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 445,200 - 563,025; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing package

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Kyriba Corp. in Warsaw offers a Director of Engineering for the Base Platform Infrastructure role, leading Kubernetes, networking, storage, and middleware, with hands-on engineering leadership to deliver reliability, scalability, and security at enterprise scale.

You will define strategic technical direction, enforce standards, drive IaC and GitOps, and collaborate with Product and Program Management while ensuring secure, observable platform operations and on-call readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor level degree in IT/CS/Engineering or related field.
• Hands-on cloud infrastructure engineering experience including security, reliability, cost.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise and scale-driven mindset.

Responsibilities

• Define and own strategic technical direction of the base platform.
• Lead design and implementation of core platform components (Kubernetes cluster config, storage, networking, middleware).
• Drive IaC and GitOps adoption, ensure automated, auditable pipelines.
• Collaborate with Product/Programs and raise technical risks early.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Technical leadership

Strategic planning

Technical communication

Education

B.Sc. in Information Technology/Software Engineering/Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

AWS

Azure/GCP

Job description

About Us

Kyriba is a global fintech leader empowering CFOs and finance teams with cloud‑based treasury, payments, risk management and working capital solutions. We serve 3,000+ customers worldwide, managing $15 trillion in payments annually and helping businesses optimize liquidity performance across the enterprise. We are on a mission to become the most sought‑after cloud technology company globally.

Location & Contract

Location: Warsaw – hybrid. Type of contract: UoP.

Role Summary

As Director of Engineering for Kyriba's future Base Platform Infrastructure, you will set the strategic technical direction and lead engineering execution of the foundational platform that underpins Kyriba's product strategy and roadmap. This includes Kubernetes platform, networking, persistence, and middleware technologies that engineering teams rely on to build and operate its products. The role is hands‑on engineering leadership, managing a team of Platform and Software Engineers to deliver reliability, scalability, and security at enterprise scale.

Technical Leadership and Strategic Direction

• Define and own the strategic technical direction of the base platform, making principled decisions on design, tooling selection, and engineering patterns.
• Define and enforce engineering standards, best practices, and quality gates across the infrastructure codebase.
• Lead the design and implementation of core platform components including Kubernetes cluster configuration, network topology, storage and persistence layers, and middleware systems.
• Drive the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps practices, ensuring the platform is fully automated, reproducible, and auditable.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and make evidence‑based recommendations on when and how to adopt them.
• Ensure the platform is built for resilience, observability, and operability from the outset, with security embedded by design.

Platform Reliability and Operational Excellence

• Own the reliability, performance, and security posture of the base platform end‑to‑end.
• Define and uphold SLOs and SLIs for the platform, and lead the team in continuously improving platform health.
• Drive a strong incident management and on‑call culture, ensuring the team can respond to and learn from production issues effectively.
• Ensure platform changes are delivered safely through robust CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and progressive rollout strategies.
• Champion observability across the platform – logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting are first‑class engineering concerns.

Technical Communication and Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Clearly articulate technical strategy, engineering decisions, and trade‑offs to both technical peers and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with peer engineering leaders to ensure the base platform meets the needs of teams building on top of it.
• Engage with Product and Program Management to provide honest, accurate technical input on feasibility, complexity, and delivery confidence without compromising engineering quality.
• Proactively surface technical risks and platform limitations early, with well‑reasoned proposals for addressing them.

Required Qualifications and Expertise

• B.Sc. degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related quantitative field.
• Proven hands‑on engineering experience within a cloud environment, with ownership of operational, security, reliability, and cost engineering aspects of cloud infrastructure.
• Deep, hands‑on expertise in Kubernetes (cluster architecture, ecosystem tooling, deployment patterns, autoscaling, and operational reliability at scale).
• Strong experience with major public cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure or GCP acceptable) and their core services (compute, storage, networking, database).
• Command of GitOps principles and tools such as Git, Terraform, and CI/CD pipeline frameworks.
• Excellent decision‑making, stakeholder management, and technical communication skills.
• Capacity to lead effectively in a fast‑paced setting, triage and prioritize concurrent engineering challenges, and deliver critical milestones on time and to quality.

Values

• Think Big & Constantly Innovate
• Put our Customers’ Outcomes First
• Act with Integrity
• Work as One Team
• Strive for Excellence while Having Fun

Compensation

Annual base salary range: zł445200 – zł563025 for a full‑time schedule. Variable compensation, performance bonus, commission‑based plan, and long‑term incentive may apply. The final package will depend on skills, experience, and performance.

Benefits include a comprehensive health, welfare, and wellbeing package supporting both professional and personal life.

EEO Statement

Kyriba is an equal‑opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship, and genetic information. We aim to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please submit a request.