Remote Platform Engineering Lead – High-Performance DSP

RTB House; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 250,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work 100%

Office in Warsaw

Office in Krakow

Job summary

RTB House is seeking a Platform Engineering Team Lead to own the platform layer of the Bidding Platform. You will guide deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure decisions to ensure reliability and scalability across a high‑volume environment.

You will mentor 8–10 engineers, define the platform roadmap, and drive self‑service capabilities with clear usage contracts. Strong leadership and deep systems knowledge are essential.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in a technical leadership role (Team Lead / Engineering Manager).
• Strong background in distributed systems and systems engineering – deployment, monitoring, databases, and load balancing.
• Comprehensive understanding of complex IT systems spanning hardware, software, and algorithms.
• Knowledge of concurrent programming and distributed systems.
• Critical performance analysis skills – from theoretical estimation to production optimisation.
• Strong programming background and the ability to dive deep into code reviews when needed.
• Experience building platform capabilities as products for other engineering teams – defining clear usage contracts and best practices, and driving cross‑team technical rollouts.
• Comfortable owning a technical area end‑to‑end and communicating across teams.
• Self‑directed, proactive approach.
• C1‑level English and Polish fluency.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 8–10 systems and backend engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and high code quality.
• Own the vision and roadmap for the platform layer of the Bidding Platform – planning its evolution with platform efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security as guiding principles.
• Participate in defining the team's evolving scope and shape the platform around areas of interest.
• Delegate ownership of whole platform areas (e.g., monitoring, deployment, security) to senior engineers while advising and supporting them.
• Deliver the team’s capabilities as self‑service platforms with clear usage contracts, including monitoring, deployment, and security.
• Base decisions on data – run experiments and gather evidence before deciding.
• Participate in IT‑wide capacity planning for further platform scaling.
• Own the framework for dispatching on‑call alarms to the right teams and drive continuous elimination of noisy alarms; the lead does not need to take part in the duty rotation personally.

Skills

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Systems engineering

Concurrent programming

Performance analysis

Programming background

Platform as product

Cross-team collaboration

Self-directed

English/Polish fluency

Tools

Java

Python

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Aerospike

Memcached

Google Cloud Platform

BigQuery

MinIO

Kafka

ClickHouse

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Jenkins

Graphite

Job description

RTB House is seeking a Platform Engineering Team Lead to own the platform layer of the Bidding Platform. You will guide deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure decisions to ensure reliability and scalability across a high‑volume environment.

You will mentor 8–10 engineers, define the platform roadmap, and drive self‑service capabilities with clear usage contracts. Strong leadership and deep systems knowledge are essential.