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

Requirements

• Leadership
• You are a senior, trusted engineering leader with 8+ years of experience managing engineers in platform, infrastructure, or data teams
• You have led teams where the customer is internal, you understand what it means to provide a service to other engineers and how to measure success in that context
• You have a proven ability to develop, mentor, and retain engineering talent, as well as manage performance with clarity and empathy
• You lead with low ego, openness, and a belief in autonomy and empowerment, where engineers take ownership and collaborate effectively
• You partner with product managers and engineering leaders to evolve Platform and Data Engineering as products
• You establish feedback loops and metrics to understand developer experience, delivery friction, and engineering effectiveness, using those insights to guide investments
• 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 dep

Benefits

Additional Information

Founded in 2017, refurbed is Europe's fastest-growing marketplace for refurbished products, active in 23 European countries and having surpassed €2Bn in GMV - all while being profitable. With beautiful headquarters in Vienna, we operate as a remote-first company, and our 250+ employees enjoy up to two months of workation per year. We've also been recognised as a Top DACH Employer by Kununu for three consecutive years. Our mission is to make sustainable consumption the easy choice by enabling customers to buy products up to 40% cheaper while significantly reducing CO₂ emissions. If you thrive in an environment that values momentum, ownership, and impact, you'll feel at home here. We're a fast-paced, high-performance team that works hard and challenges itself everyday. To enable this high-performance every team member enjoys full autonomy over their location (we're remote-first). We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager (f/m/x) to lead our Platform and Data Engineering teams. These are supporting teams, their mission is to multiply the effectiveness of every product squad at refurbed by providing reliable infrastructure, shared services, clean data, and developer tooling. You will own the technical foundation that product teams build on, and ensure it is stable, scalable, and easy to work with. Our platform technology stack includes Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Redis, and RabbitMQ on the backend, with infrastructure running on Google Cloud Platform provisioned with Terraform, and orchestrated with Kubernetes. Our data platform is built with Python on top of BigQuery.

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