Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Metal (Platform Engineering)

TL;DR

Senior Engineering Manager (Platform Engineering): Hiring, managing, and developing a team of engineers to build and provision resources including storage, networking, and Kubernetes clusters in new environments. Focus on guiding the team through project lifecycles, fostering innovation, and cross-team collaboration for high-quality results.

Location: Remote. Candidates must be based in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland, or the UK.

Salary: SEK 949,000 – SEK 1,246,000.

Company

hirify.global is a remote-first, open-source company providing observability solutions and a visualization tool used globally.

What you will do

• Hire, manage, and develop a team of engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting their growth.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering leadership to define goals aligned with business objectives.
• Provide guidance throughout the project lifecycle from early ideation through planning, execution, and post-launch.
• Foster a psychologically safe environment where engineers can learn, experiment, and iterate quickly.
• Work across team boundaries by contributing to projects and partnering to solve customer problems.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience building and managing on-prem/bare metal environments.
• A motivated self-starter with a strong bias toward action and ownership, able to navigate ambiguity.
• Comfortable collaborating across time zones and cultures in a fully remote environment, using clear, empathetic communication.
• Experienced in guiding and supporting other engineers, leading initiatives or small teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and elevate team performance.
• Deeply customer-focused, consistently grounding decisions and technical choices in user needs.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, production-readiness, and observability.
• Comfort with AI-assisted tooling and practical experience folding them into a team’s workflow.

Nice to have

• Running Kubernetes and/or Ceph in production environments.
• Experience dealing with colo facilities and associated vendors.
• Worked in or on open source, or other community-based projects previously.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture uniting talent from around the world.
• Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.
• Access to modern AI coding assistants with a company-funded usage budget.