Staff Platform Engineer

askblue; Lisboa; Presencial; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Health Insurance

3.5 days of leave + 22 vacation days

Unlimited Udemy access

Resumo da oferta

askblue in Lisbon is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to lead the design and evolution of our internal developer platform. You will drive platform strategy, set golden paths, and partner with engineering teams to raise productivity and reliability.

This role blends hands-on engineering with leadership, mentoring platform engineers, shaping tooling, observability, and automation while balancing security, cost, and developer experience.

Qualificações

• Proven track record designing, building, and evolving platform capabilities used by engineering teams in production environments.
• Platform-as-product mindset with feedback loops, roadmaps, service expectations, and outcomes.
• Experience with internal developer platform concepts/tools such as Backstage, Humanitec, Port or equivalents.
• Experience designing golden paths, reusable service templates, standardized workflows, opinionated defaults, docs, onboarding.
• Strong expertise across modern platform stack (Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, cloud infra, observability).
• Strong developer ergonomics judgment across APIs, CLIs, docs, onboarding, and templates.
• Experience defining platform operating models (ownership, escalation, support, adoption).
• Knowledge of cloud-native architecture, container platforms, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices.
• Infrastructure as code experience (Terraform or similar).
• CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace).
• Ability to influence engineering teams with credibility, clear docs, and pragmatic decisions.
• Security, reliability, scalability and cost-awareness in platform design.

Responsabilidades

• Platform Vision and Roadmap: Define direction and translate into a roadmap with measurable outcomes.
• Internal Developer Platform: Lead design/evolution of platform capabilities and tooling adoption.
• Golden Paths and Developer Workflows: Define templates, defaults, and workflows for consistency.
• Developer Experience: Improve onboarding, docs, APIs, CLIs, templates, tooling, and support.
• Developer Experience Measurement: Use DORA, SPACE, feedback, and adoption metrics.
• Platform API and Operating Model: Define contracts, ownership, and escalation boundaries.
• Observability and Reliability Enablement: Improve telemetry, dashboards, and reliability.
• Mentorship and Enablement: Grow platform engineers’ ownership and skills.
• Engineering-wide Influence: Collaborate with leadership on broader improvements.
• Stay updated: Track trends in platform engineering and cloud-native tooling.

Ferramentas

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Splunk

Datadog

Dynatrace

Backstage

Humanitec

Port

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Do you know askblue? We were born in 2013, and we provide services in the field of information technology. We are looking for Staff Platform Engineer to join our company, in one of our projects, in the the regulatory intelligence sector, located in Lisbon.

Staff Platform Engineer professionals are highly specialized IT professionals who help organizations define, build, and evolve internal developer platforms that improve the way engineering teams deliver software. They combine strong engineering depth with a platform-as-product mindset, helping teams move faster, more safely, and with less friction.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role with significant scope. The successful candidate will help define the direction of the internal developer platform, guide the adoption of golden paths, improve developer experience, and support the platform engineering team in growing ownership across platform capabilities, automation, observability, and developer enablement. They may also be called upon to provide guidance on how to best use specific tools, technologies, and operating models to improve platform adoption, reliability, and engineering productivity.

Tasks:

• Platform Vision and Roadmap: Define and evolve the vision for the internal developer platform, including what capabilities should be built, adopted, standardized, or intentionally left out of scope. Work with engineering leadership and the platform engineering team to translate this direction into a clear roadmap, practical priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Internal Developer Platform: Lead the design and evolution of internal developer platform capabilities that improve how engineering teams build, deploy, operate, and understand their services. Support the adoption of platform tools such as Backstage, Humanitec, Port, or equivalent approaches where relevant.
• Golden Paths and Developer Workflows: Define reusable service templates, opinionated defaults, paved roads, and development workflows that help engineering teams deliver services consistently. Decide where standardization is required and where flexibility is appropriate, while enabling the platform engineering team to implement and improve these patterns over time.
• Developer Experience: Make developer experience a first-class concern across the platform. Work with engineers to identify developer pain points, improve onboarding flows, documentation, APIs, CLIs, templates, internal tooling, and support models.
• Developer Experience Measurement: Establish mechanisms to measure platform success through developer outcomes, adoption, reliability, and reduced friction. Use approaches such as DORA metrics, the SPACE framework, internal developer feedback, developer interviews, and platform adoption metrics to guide prioritization.
• Platform API and Operating Model: Define the contract the platform exposes to product engineering teams, including platform abstractions, service expectations, escalation paths, support boundaries, and the split of responsibility between platform teams and service teams.
• Observability and Reliability Enablement: Bring strong fluency in observability and reliability practices so the platform can provide clear visibility, useful service health signals, and better operational standards. Partner with the platform engineering team and product engineering teams to improve telemetry quality, dashboards, operational readiness, and service expectations.
• Mentorship and Enablement: Mentor platform engineers and help develop their platform-thinking depth alongside their technical implementation skills. Create opportunities for engineers in the team to grow ownership in areas such as developer experience, golden paths, automation, observability, platform adoption, and developer enablement.
• Engineering-wide Influence: Partner with engineering leadership, product engineering, security, and operations teams on broader engineering improvements where the platform can reduce friction, improve consistency, and increase delivery confidence.
• Stay updated: Stay current with emerging technologies and trends in platform engineering, internal developer platforms, developer experience, cloud-native tooling, DevOps, observability, and infrastructure automation.

Requirements:

• A proven track record of designing, building, and evolving platform capabilities used by engineering teams in production environments.
• Strong platform-as-product mindset, with experience treating developers as internal customers through feedback loops, roadmap discipline, service expectations, and measured outcomes.
• Proven experience with internal developer platform concepts and tools such as Backstage, Humanitec, Port, or equivalent platform approaches.
• Experience designing golden paths, including reusable service templates, standardized workflows, opinionated defaults, documentation, and onboarding experiences.
• Strong expertise across the modern platform stack, including Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and observability.
• Strong developer ergonomics judgment across APIs, CLIs, error messages, documentation, onboarding flows, service templates, and internal tooling.
• Experience defining platform operating models, including ownership boundaries, escalation paths, support models, adoption mechanisms, and service expectations.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, container platforms, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or similar tools.
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• In-depth knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, or similar platforms.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues across infrastructure, platform, deployment, and developer workflow layers.
• Experience influencing engineering teams without relying only on direct authority, using technical credibility, clear communication, documentation, and pragmatic decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate security, reliability, scalability, and cost-awareness into platform design and implementation decisions.
• Has excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Is able to work effectively as part of a team, contributing to the team dynamic and resolving conflicts constructively.
• Is a champion of continuous improvement.
• Shows initiative in tackling problems.
• Is comfortable making opinionated technical decisions and defending them, while remaining open to changing direction when evidence supports it.
• Measures platform success through developer outcomes, adoption, reliability, and reduced engineering friction, not only by platform-team output.
• Communicates platform direction clearly through written documents, decision records, roadmap narratives, and technical proposals.
• Brings a service mindset and believes internal customers deserve the same care as external customers.
• Leads through clarity, mentorship, and enablement, helping engineers on the platform team grow ownership rather than centralizing all decisions.
• Is fluent in English, while any other language, particularly Portuguese, is a plus.

Work Arrangement:

• Hybrid (Twice a week in the office).

Offer:

• Health Insurance;
• 3 and a half days of leave per year + 22 vacation days;
• Unlimited access to Udemy.

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