Platform Engineering Manager

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Oxylabs' Platform is the backbone that lets the rest of engineering move fast and ship reliably. Our code-first approach values solving problems through programming rather than manual processes, and we're impelmenting AI-powered tooling to further enhance our capabilities. We value effective delegation, timely delivery, and incremental improvements. You'll have a significant influence on our DevOps practices and tooling choices.

In this role, you’ll:

• Lead Platform team responsible for Observability/Data area and keep delivery consistent.
• Own people leadership: hire, mentor, and develop engineers; keep the team healthy and performing.
• Manage capacity, risk, and dependencies: plan realistically, unblock fast, and handle escalations early.
• Align scope and priorities with the Director of Infrastructure (DoI): keep stakeholders aligned and avoid churn.
• Stay hands-on as a working Tech Lead: with a team of around 2-3 engineers, you'll carry part of the technical lead role alongside management.

Your skills & experience:

• Proven experience leading an engineering team under one of given roles (Team Lead, Squad Lead, Tech Lead).
• Strong stakeholder management: can translate business needs into a clear plan and keep people aligned.
• Pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset: can make trade-offs, push standards, and improve reliability without slowing the team down.
• Solid technical foundation: hands-on experience with technologies such as MySQL, Kafka/Redpanda, Redis/Valkey, Clickhouse, Victoria Metrics, ElasticSearch, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar.

Salary & Benefits:

• Gross salary: 6000 EUR/month - 7600 EUR/gross. Keep in mind that we are open to discussing a different salary based on your skills and experience.
• Growth & Learning: 40+ internal learning options, external conferences, mentorship, and year-round knowledge-sharing.
• Health & Well-being: Private health insurance, psychotherapy, on-site well-being consultants, 24/7 gym access, and a wellness app.
• Celebration & Community: Team events, an overseas workation, quarterly team-building budgets, and plenty of ways to mark milestones together.
• Plus bonus vacation days, paid life-moment days off, barista coffee, and all the tools you need. See the full list of benefits here: https://career.oxylabs.io/blog/our-work-benefits/.