Role overview
An engineering leadership role owning the infrastructure foundation that powers personalization experiences for hundreds of millions of end users across global e-commerce customers. The position combines people management with deep technical ownership of cloud, Kubernetes, databases, and observability platforms serving hundreds of internal application engineers.
Responsibilities
- Hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing infrastructure engineering team and run performance and career development
- Organize team rituals including standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
- Own strategy and execution for Google Cloud Platform services and cloud architecture
- Operate and evolve the Kubernetes platform, including cluster strategy, upgrades, and policy enforcement
- Ensure database reliability, performance, backup, restore, and disaster recovery
- Build and maintain a unified observability stack covering logs, metrics, traces, alerting, and dashboards
- Drive reliability and operational excellence through SLOs, SLIs, incident management, postmortems, and automation
- Partner with security and compliance on access control, data protection, and auditability
- Govern cloud cost through monitoring, tagging, allocation, and optimization initiatives
Requirements
- Proven experience leading and growing infrastructure or platform engineering teams
- Deep hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform services, cloud architecture, and IAM guardrails
- Strong Kubernetes platform operations experience including deployment patterns and CI/CD integration
- Experience with production database operations, capacity planning, and migration strategies
- Familiarity with observability tooling for metrics, logs, and traces
- Ability to partner with product, application engineering, and security teams at scale
Nice to have
- Experience in e-commerce, personalization, or other high-scale SaaS environments
Benefits and work setup
- Full-time role based in Central European offices (Bratislava, Brno, or Prague) or remote
- Restricted stock units or stock options depending on role, seniority, and location
- Company performance bonus and employee referral bonus up to $3,000
- Up to 5 paid volunteering days per year
- Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for primary caregivers
- $1,500 annual professional education budget
- Mental health support via an employee assistance program and a meditation and sleep app
- Quarterly company-wide disconnect day