Engineering Manager, Intelligent Platforms

As Engineering Manager for Cloud Runtime, you will lead a squad of platform engineers who own the container platform, networking, and traffic routing that more than 1,000 production services depend on across Europe, North America, and Australia and New Zealand. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will be close enough to the system to read a pull request, follow a debugging session, and challenge the team on technical decisions.

What you'll do

• Lead, grow, and support a distributed squad of platform engineers, with team members based in Berlin and Poland, owning hiring, development, and performance for the team
• Build and maintain an engineering roadmap spanning one to two quarters, and make explicit trade-offs between features, timelines, and quality
• Drive core platform commitments: expanding into a highly available platform with failover between pre-provisioned clusters, increasing adoption of the container platform and multi-region deployments, and reducing infrastructure cost through networking and compute optimisation
• Own the squad's operational metrics and be accountable for moving them
• Facilitate and role-model postmortems, and drive the follow-through on action items
• Partner with the Observability, Release Engineering, and Security squads where roadmaps are tightly coupled
• Foster an inclusive and open working environment and create documentation and knowledge sharing that makes the team less dependent on any single person

What you'll need

• Experience managing a team of engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development
• Experience leading a team that is split across more than one location
• Strong technical background in cloud infrastructure, with hands-on experience of Kubernetes and at least one major cloud platform
• Familiarity with service mesh, API gateways, infrastructure as code, GitOps-style deployment, and secrets management
• Experience owning production systems with meaningful availability targets, including incident response and on-call practices
• Strong stakeholder management and the ability to say no to requests not on the roadmap
• Clear written communication and strong asynchronous collaboration skills

What they offer

• Competitive salary package and HelloFresh-subsidized pension scheme
• Mental wellbeing support including access to Headspace and Spill
• 24/7 office gym access and discounted Urban Sports Club membership
• Flexible hybrid model with sabbatical leave options
• Internal training, HelloFresh Academy, and dedicated budget for German language courses
• Parent-friendly policies, in-office kids corner, and on-site babysitter