Engineering Manager (all genders)
Core
Lead a team of ~10 engineers to build and consolidate Zalando's Observability platform (metrics, traces, logs, SLOs) and incident management tooling, enabling agentic incident response and reducing cognitive load for internal engineering customers.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (Platform/Infrastructure)
Builds
Unified telemetry stack (Dash0), Observability SDKs, modern AI-integrated incident management platform
Domain
E-commerce / Distributed Systems / Observability
Required skills
Engineering team leadership, distributed systems architecture, observability (OpenTelemetry, tracing, SLOs), large-scale platform migration, technical decision-making, stakeholder management
Preferred skills
Agentic incident response strategy, automated RCA, AI tooling integration, career coaching
Technologies
Dash0, OpsGenie, OpenTelemetry, AI/ML
Responsibilities
Lead consolidation of observability tooling onto Dash0; Shape roadmap for Observability SDKs; Own architectural roadmap and design reviews; Drive agentic incident response initiatives; Ensure reliable operation of production systems; Attract, hire, and develop engineering talent
