Kubernetes Platform Engineering Manager — Remote-First

Spacelift; Warszawa; Remote; PLN 481,000 - 656,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Competitive compensation

Equity package

Job summary

Spacelift is seeking an Engineering Manager to build and lead the team delivering our new Kubernetes application-delivery product. You will hire backend and frontend engineers, set engineering practices, and own the architecture and delivery in a remote-first environment.

You’ll work with Argo CD/Flux, Terraform/OpenTofu, and go on to ship the first release, while ensuring reliability, security, and quality across the platform for our European customers and teams.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and hiring engineers.
• Hands-on software engineering experience to guide architecture and reviews.
• Production experience with Argo CD or Flux and GitOps workflows.
• Experience building distributed systems or developer platforms.
• Working knowledge of Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Strong written and spoken English (B2 or above).
• Based in Europe.

Responsibilities

• Hire backend and frontend engineers, and grow them.
• Set the team's practices for planning, design review, code review, and on-call.
• Prototype early, test the design with customers, and iterate where it fails.
• Ship a first release and establish a phased plan.
• Document major architecture decisions and rejected alternatives.
• Coordinate with Product Manager to run pilots and gather feedback.
• Own reliability, security, and quality across the platform.
• Coordinate shared components with Deploy, run engine, and platform teams.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Hiring experience

Hands-on software engineering

Argo CD / Flux knowledge

Distributed systems

English communication

Based in Europe

Tools

Argo CD

Flux

Terraform

OpenTofu

Job description

Spacelift is seeking an Engineering Manager to build and lead the team delivering our new Kubernetes application-delivery product. You will hire backend and frontend engineers, set engineering practices, and own the architecture and delivery in a remote-first environment.

You’ll work with Argo CD/Flux, Terraform/OpenTofu, and go on to ship the first release, while ensuring reliability, security, and quality across the platform for our European customers and teams.