Lead Platform Engineer
Welcome to one of Europe’s most exciting New Space companies, creating the world's first fully connected mesh network in the sky. We are an international team of experts and engineers who have spent their careers expanding the boundaries and potential of space, now united in pursuit of a single vision. We value trust, open communication and collaboration to achieve the best results together.
Your missionAs a platform engineering lead, you will guide and mentor a talented team while staying deeply involved in the technical architecture and implementation of cloud platform services. Your role requires maintaining balance between providing strategic technical leadership and hands-on development, ensuring the team delivers secure and scalable platform services to support our mission. Your expertise will be crucial in making architectural decisions, reviewing code, participating in systems design, and fostering a culture of technical excellence while simultaneously managing team dynamics, professional growth, and program deliverables. This includes:
- Team and Technical Leadership: Lead and mentor the Platform Engineering team while driving planning and execution. You'll manage team capacity, support professional development, and foster a collaborative environment. As a technical leader, you'll architect cloud platform solutions, review designs, and ensure high standards for code and infrastructure quality while driving engineering best practices adoption
- Platform Development & Automation: Take charge of developing cloud platform features and services with a strong focus on infrastructure automation. Guide API implementations and deployment strategies while ensuring platform security and compliance. You'll help establish and maintain the technical foundation and building blocks that enable our teams to work efficiently and securely to help to deliver our mission.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with multiple teams including SRE for reliability, security for cloud platform controls, and various software development teams to ensure smooth operations. You'll support FinOps practices and manage stakeholder relationships across segment teams, ensuring alignment and effective communication throughout the business
- You're a cloud platform expert. Deep knowledge of major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack) combined with expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation is essential. Your strong container orchestration skills with Kubernetes and advanced GitOps knowledge (ArgoCD, ArgoRollouts) enable you to build robust, scalable systems
- You're a skilled developer and tooling specialist. Strong coding abilities in Python, Golang, and Bash, coupled with expert-level understanding of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices form your technical foundation. You bring advanced knowledge of service mesh technologies, API management, and infrastructure testing automation to ensure reliable platform operations
- You understand security and networking deeply. Strong cloud security knowledge, including IAM, security automation, and compliance implementation, combined with advanced networking expertise in areas like VPC architecture, global load balancing, and BGP, ensures robust and secure platform design
- You're an experienced leader. With 8+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles and 2+ years of team leadership, you know how to guide teams effectively. Your background in cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, and successful platform delivery demonstrates your ability to drive results while growing team capabilities
- You excel at communication and collaboration. Your ability to mentor technical teams, plan projects and roadmaps, and manage stakeholder relationships helps create a positive and productive engineering culture. You understand that success comes from both technical excellence and effective team collaboration
We are an international team of space enthusiasts, following one great vision. We value equality in our work environment where different opinions, backgrounds and experiences are not only welcomed but also necessary to achieve the best result collaboratively.This permanent position was created recently and thus offers a lot of creative freedom. Our approach is to create a modern work environment with hybrid working model. We offer an attractive salary depending on your experience.Rivada Space Networks is an equal opportunity employer with the approach to create a diverse and inclusive working environment. We therefore welcome applications from all qualified candidates irrespective of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, disability, or other individual characteristics.