Engineering Manager, Kubernetes

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🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Spacelift

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51 - 200 employees

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

SaaS • Enterprise

Spacelift is a flexible management platform for Infrastructure as Code, co-founded in 2020 by DevOps veteran Marcin Wyszynski and successful entrepreneur Pawel Hytry. It helps DevOps teams manage cloud infrastructure by enhancing automation, visibility, and collaboration. The platform supports any IaC setup, offering both hosted and self-hosted versions, maintaining security without sacrificing functionality. Built on open-source components like Docker and Open Policy Agent, it allows for complete customization with prudent defaults. Spacelift is backed by significant funding from top venture capital firms, enabling rapid onboarding of new customers to effectively manage cloud resources.

📋 Description

• Build and lead the team for Spacelift’s Kubernetes application-delivery product • Hire backend and frontend engineers and grow them • Establish practices for planning, design review, code review, and on-call • Prototype early, test designs with customers, and iterate based on feedback • Ship the first product release • Document major architecture decisions and rejected alternatives • Estimate the build and create a phased delivery plan • Run design-partner pilots with the Product Manager • Own reliability, security, quality, and delivery • Coordinate shared components with the Deploy, run engine, and platform teams • Lead development of release promotion across environments and clusters, approvals, policy gates, audit trails, version visibility, Terraform/OpenTofu integration, and Argo CD agent/API/provider components • Report to the VP of Engineering and collaborate with the Product Manager and product designer

🎯 Requirements

• Experience managing engineers, including hiring • Recent hands-on engineering experience sufficient to lead architecture and review code • Production experience with Argo CD or Flux, including syncing, rendering Helm and Kustomize, reporting health, and scaling challenges • Experience building distributed systems, developer platforms, or workflow engines • Working knowledge of Terraform or OpenTofu • Ability to write design documents that catalyse collaboration and create strong technical designs • Strong written and spoken English (B2 or above) • Based in Europe • Nice to have: Go • Nice to have: Kubernetes controllers, operators, or agents • Nice to have: Kargo, Argo Rollouts, Harness, or another GitOps delivery tool • Nice to have: OPA/Rego or another policy-as-code tool • Nice to have: Taking a product from zero to its first customers • Nice to have: Developer tools or B2B SaaS experience • Nice to have: Contributions to Argo or other CNCF projects

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment with remote-first options • Competitive compensation packages • Competitive salary and equity package • Growth opportunities • Collaborative team environment • Work-life balance