Senior Engineering Manager - Cloud Infrastructure team
Senior Engineering Manager - Cloud Infrastructure team
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17-04-2025
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Hi were Back Market.
Were here to help make tech reliable affordable and better than new. Were a global marketplace for refurbished devices helping lower our collective environmental impact by providing trustworthy affordable tech with 92 less carbon emissions than new.
Yep you read that right. Turns out refurbished tech is way better for the planet than new. In fact With every device purchased on Back Market our positive impact on the planet grows. From our Customer Care representatives to our software engineer every individual at Back Market cuts the planet and consumers a break. Our mission is simple: to do more with what we already have.
Are you ready to join us
Our Cloud Infrastructure team (part of our CloudOPS group working alongside Performance optimisation and developer experience teams) empowers Back Market engineers with reliable and sustainable infrastructure services across Europe the US and APAC region.
Were currently searching for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and mentor this talented infrastructure team. Youll report to the previous manager who is taking on CloudOPS scope. This is a great opportunity to step into an established role supporting an group of 8 experienced engineers who are based in Paris Barcelona and remotely in France.
What youll be doing :
- Lead mentor and empower a highly skilled cloud infrastructure team of 8 engineers fostering a culture of trust autonomy and continuous improvement
- Collaborate closely with your colleagues in our CloudOps Group including SRE and Engineering Productivity teams partnering actively with Staff Engineers and stakeholders across Back Market to build relevant adopted infrastructure services
- Handle operational responsibilities gracefully: coordinating incidents maintaining calm and managing an effective and robust oncall rotation
- Treat infrastructure as a product developing clear metricsdriven approaches to measuring service usage and satisfaction. Examples of our tailored internal services include:Custom Kubernetes resources for provisioning Buckets KeyValue stores databases and protected public endpoints or secure privilegeescalation tooling to support engineers during oncall incidents
- Prioritize and evolve your teams roadmap iteratively based on feedback direct observations and clear adoption metrics. The key success will be the balance between managing operations and the platform we build
- Take ownership of costefficiency and sustainability initiatives within infrastructure actively reducing Back Markets engineering costs and carbon footprint
- Embrace iteration and experimentation supporting your team in rapidly learning from both successes and failures
- Help the team the platform and the technical organization to grow and evolve on our existing toolset built around Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Kubernetes (GKE) Cloudflare Terraform Crossplane Backstage custom CLI etc
We should meet if :
- You bring proven experience managing infrastructure/platform engineering teams in an international technologydriven environment
- You create a team environment where team members feel like they belong and are supported to do their best work
- You have a strong understanding of cloud infrastructure tooling especially Google Cloud Platform Kubernetes (GKE) Terraform and ideally Crossplane
- You understand infrastructure delivery as products measuring success through adoption clear metrics and satisfactionnot merely as technical output.
- You feel strongly about cost efficiency sustainability and actively reducing environmental footprint from your teams decisions.
- Youre comfortable coordinating incident responses handling complex operational environments dynamic backlogs and oncall rotations.
- You are pragmatic and datadriven.
- You prioritize people and relationships showing servant leadership qualities empathy and excellent coaching and communication skills.
- Youre fluent and comfortable working professionally in English
Bonus points
- Familiarity or experience with Golang (this is a plus but not mandatory
- .Experience working closely with Performance optimization and developer experience
- .Previous use of or exposure to engineerfocused developer portals such as Backstage
- Understanding of regulatory or compliance considerations (like GDPR PCIDSS ISO27001 etc.
Why now is a particularly exciting time to join Back Market:
- Global reach: Work with teams distributed across the EU US and APAC
- Talented colleagues: Lead an experienced infrastructure team as part of our wider collaborative CloudOPS group
- True sustainability focus: Directly improve engineering costefficiency and actively contribute to reducing our carbon footprint
- Clear datadriven impact: See the direct impact and adoption of your teams services through measurable results
- Exciting growth: Join at a thrilling moment as our current EM moves upwards internally stepping into a mature and impactful role
Hybrid office policy : 3 days / week at the office Monday is mandatory)
Are you hesitating to apply because you dont tick all the boxes Apply anyway
WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US
At Back Market were committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds experiences and perspectives its one of the reasons were such a highscoring certified B Corp company 93.2.
No matter your role and seniority level youll enjoy impactdriven work with handson career development in an innovative driven and fastpaced environment with benefits to match like:
A mission driven work environment where your day to day makes an impact on the planet. Seriously.
Hybrid work environment with 2 remote days a week and 1 remote work week per quarter plus 3 flex days.
Employee Resource Groups including mentorship programs comprehensive accessibility policies and cultural competency training.
At Back Market we strive to create a workplace that embodies the world were trying to change. Weve embedded our diversity equity and inclusion principles into our DNA from dedicated staff to employee resource groups to our company values.
We know that the perfect background for a role doesnt mean the perfect fit we encourage you to apply for a role even if you think you may not have all the qualifications.
If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process please do not hesitate to discuss this with the Talent Acquisition Team.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
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