Platform Engineering Manager

Oxylabs · Technology

Job description

We’re a team of 500+ professionals who develop cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions for thousands of the world’s best known businesses, including Fortune 500 companies. 


What’s in store for you:

You’ll be solving complex challenges and maintaining our own infrastructure with 60PB+ monthly data traffic. Here are its scale and maturity in numbers:


- 6PB+ Ceph storage

- 60PB+ monthly data traffic through our systems

- 300k+ service requests/sec processed

- 500k+ Kafka messages/sec streamed


The team waiting for you: 


Oxylabs' Platform is the backbone that lets the rest of engineering move fast and ship reliably. Our code-first approach values solving problems through programming rather than manual processes, and we're impelmenting AI-powered tooling to further enhance our capabilities.  We value effective delegation, timely delivery, and incremental improvements. You'll have a significant influence on our DevOps practices and tooling choices.


In this role, you’ll:
  • Lead one of our existing Platform teams (infra/DevOps) and keep delivery consistent and predictable.
  • Own people leadership - hire, mentor, and develop engineers while keeping the team healthy and performing.
  • Manage capacity, risk, and dependencies: plan realistically, unblock the team quickly, and handle escalations early.
  • Align scope and priorities with the Director of Infrastructure, keeping stakeholders aligned and avoiding churn.
  • Strengthen predictable operations - make sure ownership, incident flow, and escalation paths are clear and well-practiced.


Your skills & experience:
  • Proven experience leading an engineering team (hiring, coaching, performance, delivery ownership).
  • Strong stakeholder management: can translate business needs into a clear plan and keep people aligned.
  • Pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset: can make trade-offs, push standards, and improve reliability without slowing the team down. 


Nice to have:
  • Background in platform infrastructure.
  • Hands on Engineering experience.


Salary & Benefits:
  • Gross salary: 5500 EUR/month  - 7600 EUR/gross. Keep in mind that we are open to discussing a different salary based on your skills and experience.
  • Growth & Learning: 40+ internal learning options, external conferences, mentorship, and year-round knowledge-sharing.
  • Health & Well-being: Private health insurance, psychotherapy, on-site well-being consultants, 24/7 gym access, and a wellness app.
  • Celebration & Community: Team events, an overseas workation, quarterly team-building budgets, and plenty of ways to mark milestones together.
  • Plus bonus vacation days, paid life-moment days off, barista coffee, and all the tools you need. See the full list of benefits here: https://career.oxylabs.io/blog/our-work-benefits/.


Skills

  • risk_management

Languages

EN

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