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Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

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Aiven Deutschland GmbH

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Finland , Helsinki

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Job Description:

We’re hiring a senior engineering manager to lead Aiven’s Internal Platform Team. The goal for our Internal Platform team is to make the Aiven platform safe for change and ready for evolution and growth. The way we plan to reach that goal is by building scalable foundations that enable other teams to be successful, removing blockers and mitigating inefficiencies along the way.

Job Responsibility:

  • Plan the team’s roadmap together with product leadership and the team
  • Managing the team’s backlog and projects
  • Be accountable for the team’s output and performance by supporting the team’s deliveries
  • Grow the team by hiring excellent engineering talent
  • Offer 1-on-1 coaching and support to the team members
  • Create a psychologically safe, high-trust environment where curiosity, healthy debate, and exchange of ideas thrive
  • Facilitate team meetings like plannings, kick-offs and retrospectives

Requirements:

  • Proven track record of leading experienced teams in successful software product deliveries
  • Communicate cross-functionally and have a strong product sense
  • Experience in recruiting engineering talent
  • Experience in agile software development
  • Comfortable leading initiatives and presenting to groups
  • Fluent communication skills in English, written and verbal
  • Experience building and designing scalable platforms and distributed systems
  • Experience, preferably hands-on, in public cloud infrastructure and networking (AWS, GCP or Azure)
  • Relational database knowledge (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)
  • Streaming service knowledge (Kafka, etc.)
  • Experience working with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, etc.)
  • Experience working with container orchestrators (Kubernetes, Nomad, ECS, etc.)
  • Experience designing public RESTful APIs
What we offer:
  • Participate in Aiven’s equity plan
  • Balance work and life with our hybrid work policy
  • Choose the equipment you need to set yourself up for success
  • Use your Professional Development Plan budget for learning opportunities
  • Receive holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program
  • Inquire about our Global Time Off Commitment (Parental and Sick Leave, as well as Personal Time)
  • Enjoy country-specific benefits for our global cast

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 06, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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