Senior Engineering Manager (f/m/x) - remote

Technical experience

• You have a strong background in cloud infrastructure, ideally GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, Cloud SQL, Cloud Logging, BigQuery), but AWS or Azure also relevant
• You have experience designing and operating Kubernetes-based environments including CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, and observability stacks
• You understand data engineering fundamentals: pipeline design, data warehouse modeling, transformation tooling, and data quality practices
• You are comfortable reviewing infrastructure-as-code, participating in architecture reviews, and guiding trade-off discussions around reliability, cost, and performance
• You have a solid understanding of backend systems, distributed architectures, and how scalable services are designed, enabling you to actively participate in architectural discussions and guide teams toward sound decisions
• You understand SQL, relational database concepts, and modern backend development practices well enough to provide context, make informed decisions, and remove ambiguity
• While you are not expected to be hands-on day to day, you feel confident reviewing high-level designs, evaluating trade-offs, and ensuring that the team ships robust, thoughtful solutions

Collaboration

• You thrive in environments where your team's success is measured by the success of others, you view other engineering teams as your primary stakeholders
• You build trust across teams through reliability, transparency, and clear communication of your team's roadmap, incidents, and limitations
• You influence through clarity and context rather than authority, building alignment across teams and domains
• You are skilled at understanding the needs of product squads and translating them into infrastructure priorities, developer tooling improvements, or data platform investments

Engineering culture

• You cultivate a culture focused on ownership and reliability
• You promote modern engineering practices, clear and simple processes
• You foster transparency, feedback, and knowledge-sharing
• You reject blame culture and treat incidents as learning opportunities
• You are self-directed, aligned with objectives, and comfortable navigating ambiguity
• You are confident representing your teams across the whole organization and with company leadership

Additional background

• Excellent English skills and based in Europe
• Strong background in software engineering, infrastructure, or data systems, with a strong foundation for systems thinking
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider at depth (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure also relevant)
• Background in either platform/infrastructure or data engineering at depth, with meaningful exposure to the other

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Manage and support engineers across the Platform and Data Engineering teams, ensuring clear mission, healthy processes, and a productive working environment that doesn't depend on individual heroics
• Conduct regular 1:1s, mentor engineers, and support their personal and professional growth
• Build psychological safety, enable ownership, and help team members unlock their potential
• Facilitate technical discussions, architecture reviews, and design decisions to ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability
• Ensure your teams produce high-quality engineering outcomes by promoting best practices and establishing clear quality standards
• Contribute to code reviews or smaller technical tasks when needed, while keeping your focus on team impact not hands-on development
• Ensure infrastructure and data systems can support refurbed's growth ambitions
• Identify and resolve blockers, surface risks early, and maintain a productive environment where teams can move quickly with clarity
• Contribute to company, department and squad-level planning, driving both short- and long-term infrastructure and data strategies
• Participate in hiring and team growth, building a strong bench of senior engineers across both domains
• Strengthen the engineering culture through feedback, knowledge sharing, documentation, and leading by example
• Encourage experimentation, learning, and adoption of modern tools and practices, including AI-assisted engineering tools where they deliver meaningful outcomes
• Define and track success metrics for Platform and Data Engineering, including reliability, developer experience, platform adoption, operational efficiency, and engineering effectiveness (e.g. using DORA/SPACE Framework)

WHY YOU WILL ENJOY WORKING WITH US:

Our Culture and Values:

• Decisions should be made based on facts and not by hierarchy levels? We sure think so!
• We embrace giving and receiving feedback, testing and welcoming new ideas, as well as sharing our knowledge across the company.
• You fail sometimes? Well, so do we! We’re all just human, let’s learn from our mistakes to improve in the future!
• No matter who you love, where you’re from, who you pray to, whether you pee sitting down or standing up – we are a bunch of talented people who enjoy spending our time making a difference!

Personal & Professional Development:

• You'll have access to a dedicated learning budget within your department to support your growth, whether it's courses, conferences, or other learning opportunities that matter to you.
• We partner with Likeminded, offering you private sessions with experts for your personal growth and mental health.
• We frequently host internal workshops, allowing our teams to further develop their skills in different areas and enhancing collaboration across departments.

Flexibility:

• We care about a healthy work/life balance.We not only function and support a fully remote setting but also offer the possibility to work from our beautiful office in the vibrant heart of Vienna – we love dogs, so feel free to bring your furry little buddy too 😊
• We trust you to do the best job, so we don't care so much when you do it – you are able to self-organize.
• You will also be invited to take part in our office weeks, happening three times a year, where you will have the chance to work side by side with your colleagues and enjoy the team-building events and on-site workshops

…and much more!