About the company
The Foundations Alliance builds the tools and infrastructure that empower engineering teams across HelloFresh. Cloud Runtime sits at the center of it: we provide a reliable and highly performant multi-cluster container platform so that every HelloFresh engineer can deploy services with 99.99% uptime, high performance, low latency, and minimal operational overhead.
Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and support a distributed squad of platform engineers, with team members based in Berlin and Poland, owning hiring, development, and performance for the team
- Build and maintain an engineering roadmap spanning one to two quarters, and make explicit trade-offs between features, timelines, and quality
- Drive our core platform commitments: expanding into a highly available platform with failover between pre-provisioned clusters, increasing adoption of our container platform and multi-region deployments, and reducing infrastructure cost through networking and compute optimisation
- Own the squad's operational metrics and be accountable for moving them
- Facilitate and role-model postmortems, and drive the follow-through on action items
- Manage relationships with key infrastructure vendors and work with Security on audit and compliance requirements
- Partner with the Observability, Release Engineering, and Security squads, where our roadmaps are tightly coupled and dependencies run in both directions
- Foster an inclusive and open working environment, and create the kind of documentation and knowledge sharing that makes the team less dependent on any single person
Requirements
- Experience managing a team of engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development
- Experience leading a team that is split across more than one location, and the habits that make that work
- A strong technical background in cloud infrastructure, with hands-on experience of Kubernetes and at least one major cloud platform
- Familiarity with the surrounding ecosystem: service mesh, API gateways, infrastructure as code, GitOps-style deployment, and secrets management
- The ability to contribute technically when needed, whether that means reviewing code, pairing on a problem, or helping debug an incident
- Experience owning production systems with meaningful availability targets, including incident response and on-call practices
- Judgement about when a decision is reversible and when it is not, and a willingness to front-load design effort on the ones that are not
- Strong stakeholder management, and the ability to say no to a loud request that is not on the roadmap
- Clear written communication and strong asynchronous collaboration skills
Conditions
- Competitive salary package, including a HelloFresh-subsidized pension scheme.
- Savings on your weekly HelloFresh box.
- Discount schemes with corporate benefits and Vorteile.
- Mental wellbeing support with access to platforms like Headspace and Spill.
- 24/7 office gym access, a discounted Urban Sports Club membership, and other wellbeing resources.
- Flexible hybrid model.
- Sabbatical leave options in addition to standard time off.
- Sustainable travel perks and transportation benefits.
- Internal training, the HelloFresh Academy, and a dedicated budget for German language courses.
- Tasty in-office meal deals and fresh food options.
- Parent-friendly policies, an in-office kids corner, and an on-site babysitter.