Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Team
- We're taking autonomous search mainstream, making product discovery more intuitive and conversational for customers, and more profitable for businesses.
- We’re making conversational shopping a reality, connecting every shopper with tailored guidance and product expertise — available on demand, at every touchpoint in their journey.
- We're designing the future of autonomous marketing, taking the work out of workflows, and reclaiming the creative, strategic, and customer-first work marketers were always meant to do.
Become an Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager at Bloomreach and lead our Infrastructure team as a core foundation for product engineering. In this role, you will own the platform capabilities that power personalization across our clients’ websites and mobile apps, enabling fast experimentation and multi-variant testing at scale.
You will lead the team responsible for our core infrastructure stack - Google Cloud Platform (GCP), databases, observability platform, and Kubernetes, and partner closely with Product, Security, and application engineering teams to ensure our platform is reliable, scalable, secure, cost-efficient, and developer-friendly. Your leadership and strategic direction will impact hundreds of millions of end customers across diverse e-commerce verticals. This is a full-time role based in one of our Central European offices (Bratislava, Brno, Prague) or remote.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and grow a high-performing Infrastructure Engineering team (hiring, mentoring, performance, career development).
- Organize team activities and delivery rhythm - lead standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and other rituals that keep the team aligned, unblock work early, and continuously improve how we operate.
- Own infrastructure strategy and execution across:
- GCP services and cloud architecture
- Kubernetes platform operations and evolution
- Database reliability, performance, and lifecycle management
- Observability platform (metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards)
- Act as a foundation team leader for application teams by providing:
- cloud architecture expertise and consultation,
- shared infrastructure standards and best practices,
- reusable platform tooling and self-service capabilities.
- Drive reliability and operational excellence through SLOs/SLIs, incident management, postmortems, and automation.
- Establish strong partnership with product and application engineering teams to improve developer experience and delivery speed.
- Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to enforce best practices for access control, data protection, and auditability.
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