Lead Platform Engineer - Infrastructure and Cloud Delivery (d/f/m)

Personio's intelligent HR platform helps small and medium-sized organizations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient. Our team of 1,500 Personios is building user-friendly products that delight our 15,000+ customers and their 1.5 million employees. Ready to make an impact from day one?

This role requires 2 days per week in the office and is based in Munich or Dublin.

Join us to shape the future of software in the underserved and high-impact HR technology industry. Your work will have a direct and tangible impact on customers, offering ownership and the chance to make a meaningful difference. As we prepare for significant growth, you'll face exciting challenges and have the opportunity to influence our path toward becoming one of the world's leading tech companies.

This role is ideal for a highly collaborative engineer who thrives in a centralized platform role with a passion to identify & overcome system wide operational challenges by designing and implementing software engineering solutions that enable engineers to deliver change to production in a fast but stable manner. As a Lead Platform Engineer (Production Engineering), you will play a key role in building and evolving platform solutions related to AWS account management, centralised infra resource management, continuous delivery and kubernetes cluster management & operations.

What You’ll Do

Define and manage the company's AWS account structure, organisation & permission boundaries. Maintaining foundational infrastructure while also actively monitoring cost & utilisation.
Define and manage central infrastructure as code solutions that enable product teams to safely provision the infra resources they need while enforcing standardisation without causing bottlenecks.
Support the SDLC at Personio by defining, maintaining and operating GitOps based continuous delivery pipelines that support all worklords across all environments.
Operate and maintain EKS clusters across all environments and runtime integrations for all workloads.
Work hand-in-hand with developer experience, security & product teams to ensure the lower level platform meets the needs they outline to build, test & deploy changes across multiple environments.
Document platform capabilities and run internal training sessions where necessary.
Drive technical excellence with a design led mindset. Collaborate with cross-functional teams across the engineering organisation with the aim to simplify our platform architecture, build a golden path and help tackle technical debt.
Take ownership of operational responsibilities for platform services within your domain, including on-call participation

What You Need to Succeed

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of experience in a platform engineering, SRE or DevOps background.
Experience with cloud & infra concepts - E.G. AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog
Experience with SaaS software development in distributed systems using programming languages such as Typescript, Java/Kotlin, Python.
Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions/GitOps tools)
You have a high quality bar and lead by example regarding operational best practices.
You are data driven and are passionate about using metrics to define and evaluate your engineering design decisions.
You strike a balance between a strategic and tactical mindset. You are capable of working with your engineering manager to translate the platform's strategic vision into tactical, achievable objectives for the team.
You have excellent written and spoken English (level C1/C2 on the CEFR scale).
Experience operating at scale in a high pace, rapid growth environment.
You never let a crisis go to waste, but instead learn from your mistakes and help your team to do the same.
You embrace feedback - no one is perfect, neither are we. So let’s make this an opportunity to praise and learn from each other.
Finally, you have a good sense of humor. Have fun with us, learn with us from mistakes and bring your good vibes!

Nice to Have

You have experience with or passion to embrace new ways of working through the adoption of AI powered workflows using agents, skills & agentic feedback loops.
Your platform experience doesn’t end with core infrastructure, but you are equally interested in adjacent concepts related to observability, database operations & networking.
You have experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS).

Why Personio

Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.

At Personio, we value in-person collaboration while also offering flexibility. This role is office-based, with 2 required in your contracted office location. The remaining days can be worked from home or in the office if you prefer. In addition, you’ll have 20 Flex Days per year to work remotely from other locations.

Aside from our people, culture, and mission, check out some of the other benefits that make Personio a great place to work:

Receive a competitive reward package – reevaluated each year – that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity.
Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years.
Make an impact on the environment and society with 1 (fully paid) Impact Day.
Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities.
We enjoy gathering for meals, cultural initiatives, and events like local Summer Sessions and year-end celebrations. There's also healthy snacks, drinks, and a weekly catered lunch.