2 days ago
Madrid, SpainStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the Internal Developer Platform vision, roadmap, architecture, and end-to-end execution.
- Build the service catalog, self-service scaffolding, golden paths, CI/CD integration, and developer portal.
- Own the developer experience from service creation through production observability.
- Work across Kairos, Nexus, Auth, Base Tech, and product teams to deliver integrated developer experiences.
- Define platform standards and drive adoption using onboarding, self-service, NPS, deployment, and DORA metrics.
- Integrate authentication and authorization services into the platform’s self-service model.
- Partner with IAM, infrastructure, and SRE teams to create a coherent, reliable, and secure developer-facing platform.
- Establish developer feedback loops through surveys, usage analytics, office hours, and related programs.
- Influence platform strategy at the architectural level and represent the developer platform in technical leadership forums.
- Mentor and technically guide Principal and Senior platform engineers.
- Build and ship the greenfield platform directly through code and automation without delegating to a team.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or developer-tooling engineering.
- At least 3 years in a senior/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 at enterprise scale and driving sustained adoption.
- Deep hands-on infrastructure and operational experience with Kubernetes, GitOps, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, and observability.
- Experience shipping golden paths, service templates, and CI/CD standardization at scale.
- Production Kubernetes experience, including deployment, operation, and incident troubleshooting; Kubernetes is required.
- Experience with Go, React or Next.js, Kafka or Redpanda, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes on AKS is preferred or valuable.
- Ability to use developer surveys, metrics, and usage data for prioritization and platform improvement.
- Experience working in a large, distributed engineering organization and building platform trust.
- Ability to communicate platform value clearly to engineers, product managers, and engineering leaders.
- Demonstrable hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping production AI applications, including specific examples of AI tools and their limitations.
- Ability to build through code and automate by default as a hands-on Senior Principal Platform Engineer.
Benefits
- Flexible and hybrid work opportunities are available.
- The role offers the opportunity to build a greenfield Internal Developer Platform and shape platform strategy at enterprise scale.
- The position is an individual contributor role with no team to delegate to.
- The role is part of a global, diverse environment with a stated commitment to sustainability, inclusion, collaboration, and trust.
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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.