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Director Engineering, Platform

Berlin, BE, de💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-29 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the Global Developer Engineering team to build a cohesive, opinionated platform that empowers 4,000+ software engineers to build, deploy, and operate resilient software.

Role type

Director of Engineering, Platform (Strategic IC + Leadership)

Builds

Unified developer platform, core infrastructure capabilities, and cloud-native tooling for global engineering teams.

Domain

Food delivery / On-demand logistics / Cloud-native infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Platform engineering strategy, multi-cloud architecture (AWS/GCP), microservices design, team scaling, cost optimization, stakeholder management, technical mentorship

Preferred skills

Master's in Computer Science, experience with Go, event-driven architectures, containerization, observability frameworks

Technologies

AWS, GCP, Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana

Responsibilities

Define and execute platform strategy aligned with business objectives; champion platform-as-a-product mindset; lead and mentor a global team of 50+ engineers; guide engineering managers and align embedded platform teams; oversee architecture and rollout of automated cloud infrastructure.

Seniority

Director level, strategic leadership with hands-on technical oversight

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