Engineering Manager - Platform Engineering

Salsify; Portugal; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Salsify is seeking an Engineering Manager for Platform Engineering (Infrastructure) to lead a senior, distributed team across Portugal and the US. You will own the infrastructure that all other engineers rely on, including Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Azure, CI/CD, and the internal management platform IMP.

The role is hands-on and tactical, focusing on removing obstacles, upholding standards, protecting the team’s focus, and representing work credibly upstream.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineers in an infrastructure, platform or SRE context.
• Ability to unblock migrations, make incident calls, and balance roadmap vs. urgent work.

Responsibilities

• Runs production infrastructure across multiple platforms.
• Owns IMP, the internal management platform (Go, Temporal, GraphQL).
• Manages cloud security program with InfoSec — posture, vulnerabilities, secrets rotation.
• Delivers a roadmap for platform migrations, upgrades, cost reductions, and new capabilities.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Azure

CI/CD

Observability

Go

Temporal

GraphQL

Tools

Go

Temporal

GraphQL

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Job description

Engineering Manager for the Platform Engineering (Infrastructure) team — 7 engineers across Portugal and the US, owning the infrastructure every other engineering team at Salsify builds on: Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS and Azure, CI/CD, secrets management, observability, and our internal management platform.

This is a hands‑on, tactical engineering management role. The team is senior, autonomous and technically strong. They don't need to be told what to build. They need someone who removes obstacles, holds the standard, protects their focus, and represents their work credibly upstream.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

• Runs production infrastructure across several platforms;
• Owns IMP, our internal management platform (Go, Temporal, GraphQL), through which the organisation provisions services, manages secrets, runs Kubernetes operations and deploys;
• Operates the security programme in partnership with InfoSec — cloud posture, vulnerability management, secrets rotation, access management;
• Delivers a roadmap alongside all of the above: platform migrations, version‑currency upgrades, cost reduction and new platform capability;

What you’d own in the first year

• A team of 7 across several timezones;
• The balance between roadmap and reactive work — the hardest and most valuable thing in this role;
• Representing infrastructure upstream — to product teams, to engineering leadership, and increasingly to finance and procurement on cost and vendor decisions;
• The team’s growth and healthiness;

You’ll Enjoy This Role If You Have

• Experience managing engineers in an infrastructure, platform or SRE context — this team will know quickly whether you understand their work
• Tactical strength. Comfortable in the detail: unblocking a stuck migration, making a judgment call during an incident, deciding what gets deferred when everything is urgent
• A track record of protecting a team’s focus against a continuous stream of external requests, without becoming a bottleneck yourself
• The ability to work with senior, opinionated engineers — challenging their thinking without undermining their autonomy
• Clear written communication, particularly translating technical trade‑offs for non‑technical audiences. A significant part of this role is making infrastructure legible to people who don’t work in it
• Comfort with ambiguity and change

Strongly preferred

• Hands‑on familiarity with Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS — you don't need to write the code, but you need to follow the conversation and ask the right questions
• Experience with cloud cost management and vendor negotiation
• Having worked in a security‑conscious environment — SOC/ISO audit exposure, vulnerability management programmes
• Experience managing across timezones

National Pay Range

At Salsify, we maintain 3 core principles as part of our Compensation Philosophy:

• We pay market rates, which are competitive and equitable
• We pay based on performance and proficiency, not tenure
• We adjust proactively; when the market moves, we do too

The posted compensation range reflects the base salary for this position. All full‑time employees are invited to participate in our Total Rewards plan, which includes health & medical benefits, PTO, and more. Offers to join Salsify are based on a few criteria, including the scope of the role, the candidate’s work experience, targeted skills, internal equity of the team, and external market data.

Salsify’s mission is to empower brand manufacturers to win on the digital shelf.

Helping brand manufacturers to win online is what we do. Our culture is who we are. We are empowered. We are positive thinkers. We take action. We care deeply. These values have driven Salsify’s growth and earned the company numerous top workplace awards.

We are headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and have hubs in Lisbon (Portugal) and Sydney (Australia). If you are excited to work in a fast‑paced environment with a team that values agility, curiosity and passion, we want to hear from you!

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An Inclusive Place To Work

Salsify does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Studies have found that people of color and women do not apply to jobs if they do not meet all the requirements. At Salsify we are committed to empowering a diverse workforce. We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Accommodations

Salsify is committed to an inclusive hiring process, and we aim to provide accommodations for persons with disabilities. If you need any accommodations for the application or throughout the interview process please contact [e-mail].