2 days ago
Düsseldorf, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the Internal Developer Platform vision, roadmap, architecture, and end-to-end execution.
- Build the service catalogue, self-service scaffolding, golden paths, CI/CD integration, developer portals, service templates, and documentation.
- Own the developer experience from service creation through production observability.
- Work across Kairos, Nexus, Auth, Base Tech, NGA product teams, and IFS R&D teams to deliver cohesive developer experiences.
- Define platform standards and drive adoption using onboarding, self-service, NPS, deployment, and DORA metrics.
- Integrate authentication and authorization services into the self-service platform model.
- Partner with IAM, infrastructure, and SRE teams to create a coherent, reliable, and secure developer-facing platform.
- Establish feedback loops through surveys, usage analytics, office hours, and developer research.
- 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 as a hands-on individual contributor without a delegated 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, including Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, and observability.
- Experience shipping golden paths, service templates, and CI/CD standardization at scale.
- Experience operating Kubernetes in production, including deploying to it and responding when it fails.
- Experience using developer surveys, usage metrics, and customer-oriented prioritization to improve internal platforms.
- Familiarity with Go, React, Next.js, Kafka or Redpanda, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes on AKS.
- Experience working in a large, distributed engineering organization and building platform trust.
- Ability to communicate platform strategy and explain technical work in plain language to engineering leaders, product directors, and product managers.
- Demonstrable hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping production AI applications, including the ability to discuss specific AI tools and their limitations.
- Hands-on senior-principal-level platform engineering experience; the role is not suited to applicants whose background is limited to infrastructure administration, release engineering, monitoring, or incident response.
Benefits
- Flexible and hybrid work opportunities are available, with flexibility to work in a way that suits individual needs while engaging with colleagues.
- Opportunity to work in a global, diverse environment at a billion-dollar enterprise software company with more than 7,000 employees worldwide.
- Opportunity to shape a greenfield Internal Developer Platform and work with cloud-native and AI-oriented enterprise software.
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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.