Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kraken develops technology for the energy industry, helping optimize renewable generation, build a more intelligent grid, and improve customer experiences. The Lead Platform Engineer - Solutions will manage distributed platform engineering teams, coordinate global delivery, champion automation, support client integrations, and ensure reliable delivery of secure, scalable infrastructure and applications.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the APAC Solutions lead, Director, Heads of Platform Engineering and Client Engineering to define strategic objectives and team direction
- Manage team priorities and ensure initiatives are completed within deadlines
- Work with Client Engineering and pre-Sales teams to support client use cases and integrations, with a continuous improvement workstream to streamline and automate app builds
- Provide production support for highly-available, large-scale internet-facing distributed systems
- Line manage 7-10 Platform Engineers in Solutions team across the US and EU, and co-manage the global, follow-the-sun team and pipeline to support new client infrastructure builds
- Set clear performance expectations and regularly review individual and team performance, offering actionable insights and constructive feedback to support and grow team members
- Lead a strong team culture with open communication, trust, and inclusive team environment
- Participate in Platform Engineering leadership and org-wide efforts as well as setting high standards for team health, code hygiene, and ways of working
- Deliver technical improvements such as small features and bug fixes
- Support team delivery through code reviews, technology research and architectural guidance
Skills
- Excellent communication skills, with a focus on doing this asynchronously across multiple timezones and countries
- Demonstrable impact working effectively with developers, product managers and other business stakeholders to understand and deliver impactful projects or improve KPIs
- Record of successfully and consistently delivering critical path projects, on time and at scale
- Meticulous organisation and planning skills
- Experience of mentoring and coaching highly-autonomous teams
- Proficiency with AWS. We use a lot of different AWS services and including Amazon EKS in production
- Knowledge of Platform Engineering best-practices, including security, CI/CD tooling and methodologies
- Applicants must have the right to work in the country that they're applying to, at the time of application
- Experience working on SaaS platforms, including engaging product teams to ensure up-skilling and knowledge sharing across teams
- Proactive, problem-solving orientation with an interest in continual improvement
- Prior experience in globally distributed teams
Benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
- Paid time off — we know working hard means also being able to recharge as needed, we trust our employees to get the work done and take the time they need.
- 401(k) plan with employer match.
- Parental leave. Biological, adoptive and foster parents are all eligible.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits.
- Flexible working environment: you need to shift around your schedule? You do you, we genuinely believe in work/life balance.
- Equity Options: every Kraken employee owns part of the business.
- Modern office or co-working spaces depending on location.
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