Engineering Manager, DevOps — AI-Native Platform Leader

Swap; Kraków; On-site; PLN 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Stock options

Generous PTO

Private healthcare

Pension contributions

Wellness benefits

Mental health support

Flexible working

Work abroad for 4 weeks a year

Quarterly team offsite

Thursday happy hour

Breakfast Mondays

Job summary

Swap is seeking an Engineering Manager, DevOps to lead a growing team that keeps our platform fast, reliable, and secure as we scale. You’ll coach engineers, shape a roadmap with measurable reliability and security goals, and bring AI-native practices into everyday workflows.

Collaborate with the Director of Engineering and peer managers to drive impact, optimize costs, and deliver production-ready infrastructure at scale from Krakow.

Qualifications

• Experience line-managing engineers, including mentoring and performance handling.
• Senior or lead experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering with hands-on cloud skills.
• Deep experience with CICD, infrastructure as code, observability, incident management, and security.
• A habit of measuring impact and using metrics to drive priorities.
• Technical credibility in design reviews and architecture decisions.
• Experience standardizing infrastructure, deployment, and security policies.
• Proven delivery across multiple projects in engineering organizations.
• Track record of running production infrastructure at scale.
• Experience mentoring and delegating to grow others.
• Clear communication and influencing peers across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of DevOps engineers with clear expectations and feedback.
• Own infrastructure spend and trade-offs in design decisions.
• Own the team's outcomes and roadmap tied to reliability, security, and productivity goals.
• Maintain squad quality and operational health.
• Turn AI-native practices into repeatable workflows and measure impact on throughput.
• Foster a culture of early risk reporting and direct conversations when needed.
• Share goals within and beyond DevOps with the Director of Engineering and peers.
• Own the hiring plan and streamline onboarding for new joiners.

Skills

People leadership

DevOps leadership

SRE practices

CI/CD

IaC

Observability

Incident management

Security

Metrics-driven

Cloud architecture

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

Swap is seeking an Engineering Manager, DevOps to lead a growing team that keeps our platform fast, reliable, and secure as we scale. You’ll coach engineers, shape a roadmap with measurable reliability and security goals, and bring AI-native practices into everyday workflows.

Collaborate with the Director of Engineering and peer managers to drive impact, optimize costs, and deliver production-ready infrastructure at scale from Krakow.