Platform Engineering Manager — Global Infra Leader

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

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.