Senior Platform Engineer

Job Description

Help us build the experience layer powering 40 enterprise platformsand make thousands of engineers happier every day.

Were building something ambitious: a unified Platform Experience layer that gives developers and data teams one beautiful intuitive selfservice way to consume dozens of internal platforms.

Think: a smart modular admin portal API hub onboarding engine access management realtime insightsall wrapped in secure scalable automation.

If you love creating frictionless engineering experiences designing systems that just work and turning complex platform capabilities into simple joyful interfaces youll feel right at home.

Security matters deeply hereevery workflow every policy every interaction. Youll help bake in security-by-design while still keeping things fast and developer-friendly.

What youll do

• Lead with experience and systems thinking: Youll create the core elements of the Platform Experience layermodular interfaces intuitive onboarding flows clear access patterns and simple ways to understand platform health and status. Your focus will be on making complicated things feel easy and predictable

• Turn complexity into clarity: Youll design self-service experiences and workflows that abstract away the hard parts of provisioning accessing and integrating with platforms. Youll translate logs events and orchestration outputs into signals that humans can understand instantly

• Create patterns that scale: Youll collaborate with platform owners across dozens of technologies to define standards shared contracts and consistent ways of working. Your work will help dozens of teams move faster avoid duplication and trust the systems they rely on

• Give people insight and confidence: Youll help enable meaningful dashboards telemetry views and signals that tell users whats happening why it matters and what they should do nextwhether theyre engineers analysts or leaders

• Explore better ways of working with AI: Youll look for opportunities to augment engineering experiences with AI: better guidance smarter recommendations clearer context and more natural interactions. And youll help ensure this is done responsibly and securely

• Be a partner and facilitator: Youll work closely with architects engineers product partners and platform owners to understand their needs align on problems test ideas quickly and close the loop with clear updates. Youll help create a working culture that values communication curiosity and continuous learning

• Provide leadership through clarity and empathy: Youll guide others toward better UX patterns stronger security practices and more coherent platform standards. Youll help shape technical direction while balancing multiple perspectives: users platform owners security and business goals

What success looks like

• Onboarding and provisioning feel fast intuitive and self-service by default

• Engineering experience consistency across dozens of platformsshared patterns predictable workflows and clear guardrails

• Platform owners benefit from reusable contracts aligned patterns and reduced operational friction

• Users can quickly understand platform health usage cost and compliance through meaningful signals

• Whether through UI API CLI or SDK the experience feels coherent reliable and welldocumented

• AI improves discoverability guidance and everyday workflows

• Teams feel heardfeedback loops are fast transparent and meaningful

• You are seen as a key voice in shaping the experience layer and aligning teams around shared standards

What you bring

• A strong engineering background with experience in platform engineering developer tooling or internal platforms

• A mindset focused on usability clarity simplification and systems designnot just implementation

• Comfort moving across technologies and learning new tools as needed

• An automation-oriented approach and familiarity with modern Platform Engineering & DevOps practices

• Experience designing experiences for developers or internal users through portals workflows APIs or tooling

• A security-first mindset: understanding identity access guardrails and secure patterns

• Experience creating meaningful telemetry and insights for users

• Strong communication skills: the ability to facilitate workshops explain decisions gather feedback and guide others

• Comfort working in Scrum and in evolving environments

Nice to have

• Exposure to integration data or governance platforms

• Familiarity with schema-driven UI reusable design systems or contract-first design

• Background in platform engineering or internal developer platforms

• Experience applying AI/ML to workflow or assistantstyle experiences

What we value

• Putting the user at the centerbuilding experiences people actually enjoy using

• Security automation and self-service as core design principles

• Curiosity healthy debate and the ability to simplify complex systems

• Rapid iteration with strong feedback loops and real-world validation

• A focus on outcomes: adoption reliability time-to-provision and overall user satisfaction

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team global projects international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Hybrid working model flexible role pattern

• Pension and health insurance contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral program

• 5 weeks annual leave 5 sick days 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities 12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers Lítačka sport culture health travel etc.) Multisport Card

• Vodafone Raiffeisen Bank Foodora and other discount programs

• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone

• Parking in the garage for drivers or showers for bikers

• Competitive salary incentive pay and many more

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