Engineering Manager – Platform & Infrastructure

ablefy

Engineering Manager leading Platform & Infrastructure teams at ablefy, a SaaS company. Managing DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Automated Quality Assurance for international expansion.

Posted 4/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇩🇪 GermanyMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You manage and develop engineers across DevOps, Platform, and AQA.
You will drive the decision process and execution to consolidate these into a coherent, maintainable stack — improving signal quality, reducing tool sprawl, and cutting cost.
You own the AWS infrastructure design for multi-region deployments — networking, data residency, compliance implications, and operational readiness.
Your Platform team works directly with stream-aligned teams to identify and resolve systemic performance risks — including query tagging, timeout analysis, and database-level bottlenecks that can cascade into incidents.
You own our CircleCI pipelines — speed, reliability, and cost.
Your AQA team owns automated testing across the organisation — Playwright-based end-to-end tests, test suite maintenance, and the quality gate that governs every release.
You work with your Platform team to improve the internal tooling that stream-aligned engineers depend on daily.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You have led or owned DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering functions in a product engineering organisation.
You understand cloud infrastructure deeply — specifically AWS (ECS, RDS, networking, cost management) — and you have experience with multi-region deployments.
You have hands-on experience consolidating monitoring stacks and building operational clarity from tool sprawl.
You have managed multi-discipline engineering teams, ideally spanning infrastructure, platform tooling, and quality engineering.
You treat cloud and tooling spend as engineering metrics.
You understand automated quality assurance as a system — test architecture, flakiness management, release gate design, and the relationship between test coverage and actual release confidence.
You are already using AI tooling in your daily work.
You don't write all the code — but you earn your team's respect through architectural judgment, the right questions, and a clear point of view on technical trade-offs.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Paid Time Off - 30 vacation days.
A competitive salary.
A personal Training & Development budget of € 1,500 per year.
Responsibility and trust from day 1.
Individual coaching and further training to support you in your development.
A free BVG ticket.
Employee discounts at numerous companies (e.g. at the gym or in online stores).
Pension program with company match up to 30% of employee contributions.
A Culture of equity and Inclusion where you are appreciated for the person you are.

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSECSRDSautomated testingPlaywrightCircleCImonitoring stackstest architectureflakiness managementrelease gate design

Soft Skills

leadershipdecision makingcommunicationarchitectural judgmentcollaborationproblem solvingorganizational skillstechnical trade-offsteam respectperformance risk management