2 days ago
Kraków, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the Internal Developer Platform vision, roadmap, standards, and end-to-end execution.
- Build the service catalogue, developer portal, self-service scaffolding, golden paths, service templates, and CI/CD integrations.
- Own the developer experience from service creation through production observability.
- Integrate authentication and authorization services into the platform’s self-service model.
- Partner with product, infrastructure, IAM, SRE, and engineering teams to deliver a coherent, reliable, and secure developer experience.
- Measure and improve platform adoption using onboarding time, self-service completion, platform NPS, time-to-first-deployment, DORA metrics, surveys, and usage analytics.
- Establish feedback loops through developer surveys, office hours, and direct engagement with product teams.
- Influence platform architecture and strategy in technical leadership forums.
- Mentor and technically guide Principal and Senior platform engineers.
- Build and automate the greenfield platform directly as an individual contributor.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or developer-tooling engineering.
- At least 3 years in a senior or staff individual-contributor or technical-lead role.
- End-to-end ownership of an Internal Developer Platform or developer portal such as Backstage, Port, Cortex, or an equivalent.
- Experience bringing developer platforms into production and driving adoption at enterprise scale.
- Deep hands-on infrastructure and operational experience, including production Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code using Terraform or Crossplane, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, and observability.
- Experience shipping golden paths, service templates, and CI/CD standardization at scale.
- Experience using developer research, surveys, metrics, and usage analytics to prioritize platform improvements.
- Familiarity with Go, React, Next.js, Kafka or Redpanda, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes on AKS.
- Experience working in large, distributed engineering organizations and building platform trust.
- Ability to communicate platform strategy clearly to engineering leaders, product directors, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrable hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping production AI applications.
- Ability to explain specific AI tools, their uses, and their limitations.
- The role requires hands-on platform building rather than only CI/CD ownership, release engineering, cloud administration, monitoring, or incident response.
Benefits
- Flexible and hybrid work opportunities with an emphasis on inclusive workplace experiences and community.
- Opportunity to shape a greenfield Internal Developer Platform at a global enterprise software company.
- Opportunity to work on AI-native enterprise software using cloud-native technologies, large language models, and agentic AI.
- Global, diverse work environment with a commitment to sustainability and meaningful worldwide impact.
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About IFS
IFS builds IFS Cloud, an enterprise suite covering ERP, EAM, FSM, SCM, and project/service management for manufacturers and asset‑intensive organizations. Its business model centers on software subscriptions and services for cloud and hybrid deployments, plus industry-specific modules and consulting. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, the company is privately held under EQT ownership and operates globally across industrial and service-focused markets.