Principal Platform Engineer

Description

You thrive in building the backbone of modern software development and internal developer platforms. You create smooth, automated, and scalable developer experiences by designing robust platforms, streamlining pipelines, and optimizing delivery processes. If you love solving infrastructure challenges, enabling development teams, and shaping the way software is delivered-this is for you.

Your tasks

• Strategic Leadership: Act as a trusted advisor, shaping platform strategy and technical direction for customers.
• Enterprise-Scale Solutions: Lead the design and execution of highly complex, large-scale platforms.
• Hands-on Expertise: While primarily strategic, maintain deep technical knowledge and the ability to step in when needed.
• Infrastructure as Code: Contribute to architecture decisions and review Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar configurations.
• Thought Leadership: Represent SQUER at conferences, industry events, and within the cloud-native community.
• Project Delivery: Oversee project execution, ensuring alignment with customer objectives and technical excellence.
• C-Level Engagement: Consult and present platform strategies to executive leadership.
• Business Development: Build strong customer relationships, drive platform strategy discussions, and explore new opportunities.

Your qualifications

• Consulting Excellence: Extensive experience in platform engineering, DevOps and cloud consulting - with a strong ability to advise clients strategically and technically.
• Strategical & Technical Leadership: Proven ability to lead technical decision-making, guide architecture discussions, and align engineering direction with business goals.
• Enterprise Architecture: Deep knowledge of designing and implementing large-scale, resilient platform solutions.
• Infrastructure & Automation: Strong hands-on technical foundation in platform automation, cloud security, and observability.
• Leadership & Influence: Ability to lead cross-functional teams, drive innovation, and shape strategic technology decisions.
• Public Speaking & Thought Leadership: Confident in delivering keynotes, presentations, and engaging with the industry.
• Business & Technical Alignment: Ability to bridge the gap between technical solutions and business objectives.
• AI- native: You actively use AI-powered tools (e.g., code assistants, LLM-based workflows) to amplify your productivity and quality, or you're eager to start.
• Communication: Ability to break down complex topics and explain them in a way that makes sense to both engineers and customers.
• Languages: Fluent in English and German

Your Benefits

Why You'll Love Working at SQUER:

• Ownership & Responsibility: at SQUER, we believe in empowering our team. In our flat hierarchies, your ideas and actions matter more than titles. Take the reins, make an impact and grow with us.
• Learn & Grow: Tap into a € 5.000 annual training budget to sharpen your skills and take advantage of our in-house Leadership Academy. Join and be part of our active tech community through meetups, hackathons and training sessions. Get up to 40h/year additional time off for your personal education.
• Exciting Challenges & Real Impact: Dive into diverse projects where your work truly makes a difference - for our clients and for SQUER.
• Flexibility for Performance: Benefit from hybrid work options, flexible hours, workations within the EU, and additional vacation days - giving you the freedom to perform at your best.
• Tailored Tools for Success: Choose your preferred hardware configuration and leverage our suite of AI tools and licenses (Anthropic, OpenAI, and more) to suit your working style.
• We Value You: Beyond perks and benefits, we offer a competitive annual salary to recognize your exceptional contributions.
• Be Part of a Thriving Team Culture: At SQUER, collaboration and connection are at the heart of what we do. Through open communication, shared successes, and meaningful team events - including our annual SQUER offsite - we cultivate a culture where everyone feels valued and inspired to grow together.
• A Perks-Packed Workplace: Work in a central office with a spacious terrace and BBQ, enjoy free lunch in the office, MyClubs sports membership, and either a free “Wiener Linien” ticket or a partial contribution to the “Klimaticket”. Plus, benefit from free massages, referral bonuses, Corporate Benefits, and JobRad. Annual employee presents and a monthly team breakfast add extra value to your work experience.

We believe in transparent and fair compensation. For this role, the annual gross salary ranges between € 95.000 and € 105.000 - the exact placement depends on the seniority level we assess together during the process.