Senior Principal AI Platform Lead: Build the IDP

IFS; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS is seeking a Senior Principal Platform Lead for AI & Agentic Systems to own and shape the Internal Developer Platform. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role focused on building, automating, and delivering a production-grade platform.

You will drive a greenfield initiative, set architecture, define golden paths, and align with NGA and product teams, while communicating clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing, building and shipping production AI applications.
• Experience running Kubernetes in production and operating it under load.
• Ability to communicate complex platform concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the IDP vision, roadmap, and end-to-end execution for the Internal Developer Platform (IDP).
• Define golden paths and self-service templates to accelerate developer productivity.
• Drive adoption with measurable metrics like onboarding time and time-to-first-deployment.
• Collaborate across NGA, Nexus, Auth, Base Tech, and product teams for cohesive experiences.
• Integrate authentication/authorization services into the IDP self-service model.
• Lead architectural discussions and represent the developer platform in leadership forums.
• Mentor Principal and Senior platform engineers to raise DX standards.

Skills

8+ years platform engineering

Senior/staff IC or technical lead

Kubernetes

Go

React/Next.js

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform / Crossplane

Observability

Golden paths / templates

Tools

Kubernetes

GitOps

Terraform

Crossplane

CI/CD pipelines

Secrets management

Observability

Job description

IFS is seeking a Senior Principal Platform Lead for AI & Agentic Systems to own and shape the Internal Developer Platform. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role focused on building, automating, and delivering a production-grade platform.

You will drive a greenfield initiative, set architecture, define golden paths, and align with NGA and product teams, while communicating clearly to non-technical stakeholders.