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Engineering Manager - Platform Engineering

Engineering Manager - Platform Engineering

Lead Remote Portugal Full-time Posted 3 months ago

Skills & stack

Tools & Infra

AWS Kubernetes

About the role

Feedzai is hiring a lead-level Engineering Manager for Platform Engineering, working remotely in Portugal. You will guide platform performance and reliability work, turning product priorities into roadmaps and addressing risks to system health through automation.

Work format

This is a full-time position.

Skills and tools

AWS
GCP
Azure
Kubernetes
Infrastructure as Code

What to prepare

Prepare a walkthrough of an AWS and Kubernetes system you operated, including its failure modes.
Bring an example of an incident review that led to automation or reduced recurring failures.
Outline how you translated platform priorities into a roadmap while accounting for team capacity.

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor platform engineers, providing feedback that supports their development.
Own the reliability roadmap and prioritize technical debt that threatens system health.
Drive performance profiling, capacity planning, and latency optimization to address bottlenecks.
Improve incident response, postmortems, and on-call practices, using SLOs and SLIs to measure system health.
Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, and Customer Success to establish engineering best practices.

Requirements

Extensive experience managing platform, infrastructure, or software engineering teams with demanding scalability and reliability requirements.
Hands-on experience operating distributed systems, diagnosing cascading failures, and designing for fault tolerance and graceful degradation.
Deep AWS expertise and strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and Infrastructure as Code.
A background in performance-sensitive systems with high availability requirements and strict SLAs.
Ability to stay engaged in architectural, security, and reliability decisions without obstructing day-to-day operations.

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Product

AI-native fraud and financial crime prevention company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Coimbra, Portugal (with a second HQ in San Mateo, California), whose RiskOps platform protects transactions

Location: Coimbra, Portugal
Team size: 500-1000
Remote policy: Hybrid

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