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We power personalization for more than 1,400 global brands, including American Eagle, Sonepar, and Pandora.\nBecome 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.\nYou 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.\nYour 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.\nWhat You’ll Do\nLead and grow a high-performing Infrastructure Engineering team (hiring, mentoring, performance, career development).\nOrganize 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.\nOwn infrastructure strategy and execution across:\nGCP services and cloud architecture\nKubernetes platform operations and evolution\nDatabase reliability, performance, and lifecycle management\nObservability platform (metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards)\nAct as a foundation team leader for application teams by providing:\ncloud architecture expertise and consultation,\nshared infrastructure standards and best practices,\nreusable platform tooling and self-service capabilities.\nDrive reliability and operational excellence through SLOs/SLIs, incident management, postmortems, and automation.\nEstablish strong partnership with product and application engineering teams to improve developer experience and delivery speed.\nCollaborate with Security and Compliance teams to enforce best practices for access control, data protection, and auditability.\nOwn infrastructure financial governance, including:\ncost monitoring and visibility across cloud resources,\ncost optimization initiatives and accountability with engineering teams.\nKey Responsibilities by Domain\nGCP\nDefine and maintain cloud architecture standards, IAM model, and network/security guardrails.\nImprove scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency of GCP-based services.\nImplement cloud cost monitoring practices (tagging, allocation, dashboards, anomaly detection).\nKubernetes Platform\nOwn Kubernetes cluster strategy, upgrades, policy enforcement, and platform reliability.\nStandardize deployment patterns and improve CI/CD integration for application teams.\nDatabases\nEnsure availability, performance, backup/restore, and disaster recovery for production databases.\nGuide database capacity planning, migration strategies, and operational best practices.\nObservability\nBuild and maintain a unified observability stack for logs, metrics, traces, and alerting.\nEnsure teams can detect, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents quickly with actionable telemetry.\nFoundation Enablement\nProvide expert guidance and platform tooling that enables application teams to operate effectively on cloud infrastructure.\nPromote infrastructure best practices through documentation, training, and hands-on support.\nWhat We’re Looking For\n5+ years in software/platform/infrastructure engineering, with 2+ years in people leadership.\nProven experience managing infrastructure teams in cloud-native environments.\nStrong hands-on understanding of:\nGCP services (compute, networking, IAM, storage, monitoring),\nKubernetes in production,\ndatabase operations (SQL/NoSQL, replication, backup/DR, tuning),\nobservability tooling and SRE practices.\nExperience building foundation/platform capabilities for multiple engineering teams.\nExperience with cloud cost monitoring, budget ownership, and cost optimization at scale.\nStrong communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.\nAbility to set strategy while remaining pragmatic and execution-focused.\nNice to Have\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and policy-as-code.\nExperience with service mesh, platform APIs, or internal developer platforms.\nFamiliarity with SOC2/ISO27001/GDPR-related infrastructure controls.\nExperience supporting multi-region or global-scale systems.\nSuccess in This Role\nFirst 30 days: Understand architecture, team dynamics, and reliability/cost baseline; establish team operating cadence.\nFirst 90 days: Deliver improvements in platform reliability and observability coverage; introduce clear cloud cost visibility and ownership.\nFirst 180 days: Improve reliability and deployment efficiency metrics, reduce operational toil, and achieve measurable infrastructure cost optimization.\nThe pay range actually offered will take into account a variety of potential factors considered in compensation, including but not limited to skills, qualifications, geographic location, accomplishments, experience, credentials, internal equity and business needs, and may vary from the range listed above.\nBase Salary Range\n1 600 000 Kč—2 285 700 Kč CZK\nMore things you'll like about Bloomreach:\nCulture:\nA great deal of freedom and trust. At Bloomreach we don’t clock in and out, and we have neither corporate rules nor long approval processes. This freedom goes hand in hand with responsibility. We are interested in results from day one. \n\nWe have defined our 5 values and the 10 underlying key behaviors that we strongly believe in. We can only succeed if everyone lives these behaviors day to day. We've embedded them in our processes like recruitment, onboarding, feedback, personal development, performance review and internal communication. \n\nWe believe in flexible working hours to accommodate your working style.\n\nWe work virtual-first with several Bloomreach Hubs available across three continents.\n\nWe organize company events to experience the global spirit of the company and get excited about what's ahead.\n\nWe encourage and support our employees to engage in volunteering activities - every Bloomreacher can take 5 paid days off to volunteer*.\n\nThe Bloomreach Glassdoor page elaborates on our stellar 4.7/5 rating. The Bloomreach Comparably page Culture score is even higher at 4.9/5\n\nPersonal Development:\nWe have a People Development Program - participating in personal development workshops on various topics run by experts from inside the company. We are continuously developing & updating competency maps for select functions.\n\nOur resident communication coach Ivo Večeřa is available to help navigate work-related communications & decision-making challenges.*\n\nOur managers are strongly encouraged to participate in the Leader Development Program to develop in the areas we consider essential for any leader. The program includes regular comprehensive feedback, consultations with a coach and follow-up check-ins.\n\nBloomreachers utilize the $1,500 professional education budget on an annual basis to purchase education products (books, courses, certifications, etc.)*\n\nWell-being:\nThe Employee Assistance Program -- with counselors -- is available for non-work-related challenges.*\n\nSubscription to Calm - sleep and meditation app.*\n\nWe organize ‘DisConnect’ days where Bloomreachers globally enjoy one additional day off each quarter, allowing us to unwind together and focus on activities away from the screen with our loved ones.\n\nWe facilitate sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities for each other.\n\nExtended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers.*\n\nCompensation:\nRestricted Stock Units or Stock Options are granted depending on a team member’s role, seniority, and location.*\n\nEveryone gets to participate in the company's success through the company performance bonus.*\n\nWe offer an employee referral bonus of up to $3,000!\n\nWe reward & celebrate work anniversaries -- Bloomversaries!*\n\n(*Subject to employment type. Interns are exempt from marked benefits, usually for the first 6 months.)\nExcited? 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