Cloud Platform Tech Lead

About the role

Join Trade Republic's Platform Engineering team to build cloud control planes and programmable infrastructure systems for Europe's largest savings platform. You'll design Go-based systems that manage AWS infrastructure at scale, replacing manual Terraform workflows with self-healing, intent-driven automation while owning critical partner connectivity infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Build cloud control planes: Design and implement Go-based systems that programmatically manage AWS infrastructure — accounts, IAM, networking, and organisational policies — replacing manual Terraform workflows with self-healing, intent-driven automation.
• Encode governance as software: Turn compliance, security, and cost requirements into programmable guardrails that are enforced continuously, not checked after the fact — meeting the same bar of reliability and self-service that our engineers already expect from the rest of the platform.
• Own partner connectivity: Build and operate the network infrastructure that connects Trade Republic to exchanges, payment providers, and banking partners — ensuring these connections are resilient, secure, and ready ahead of every release.
• Own the platform end to end: Participate in the on-call rotation for cloud infrastructure, ensuring full end-to-end ownership of the systems you build and operate.
• Own the direction and drive it forward: Define the long-term cloud platform strategy, drive cross-team initiatives from kickoff to delivery, and align cloud infrastructure decisions with broader engineering, compliance, and cost goals.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of experience in cloud platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related SRE/systems discipline.
• Strong programming skills in Go, with experience building infrastructure automation as software rather than scripts.
• Deep expertise with AWS — IAM, Organizations, networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN), and multi-account architectures.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, or equivalent) and a clear understanding of when declarative configuration ends and programmable control planes begin.
• A track record of building systems that enforce compliance, security, and cost governance through automation rather than manual review.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures in production.
• Ability to drive cross-team technical initiatives end-to-end, from ambiguous problem to shipped solution.
• The ability to work in a flexible hybrid setup, with 2-3 days a week in the office.