Team Lead, Infra (Giger)
This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Team Lead, Infra (Giger) in France.
This is a high-impact leadership role at the intersection of platform engineering and developer experience, where you will guide a globally distributed team building one of the most critical internal infrastructure platforms. You will lead the evolution of a large-scale sandbox system that enables engineers to spin up production-like environments in minutes, accelerating development, testing, and deployment across hundreds of teams. The role combines hands-on technical depth with strategic leadership, requiring you to stay close to architecture and code while shaping roadmap decisions and engineering culture. You will operate in a highly dynamic environment managing one of the largest Kubernetes-based infrastructures, supporting thousands of nodes and tens of thousands of workloads. This position is ideal for an engineering leader passionate about distributed systems, developer productivity, and large-scale platform reliability.
Accountabilities
- Lead a distributed team of engineers, providing technical direction, architectural guidance, and day-to-day operational oversight.
- Own and evolve the technical roadmap for the developer sandbox platform in alignment with broader organizational objectives.
- Maintain and improve the stability, scalability, and reliability of a large-scale Kubernetes-based infrastructure platform.
- Design and implement improvements to sandbox provisioning, resource efficiency, observability, and self-service capabilities.
- Make key architectural decisions related to scalability, performance, cost optimization, and system resilience.
- Manage on-call rotations and ensure strong incident response practices and operational excellence.
- Collaborate closely with DevOps, DBAs, InfoSec, and other engineering teams to align infrastructure goals.
- Drive cross-functional initiatives and ensure successful delivery of complex, multi-team technical projects.
- Foster engineering excellence through code reviews, best practices, and continuous improvement in development and deployment workflows.
- Build and nurture a strong engineering culture focused on collaboration, inclusion, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Participate in hiring, performance management, and mentorship to grow and strengthen the team.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong expertise in backend or systems programming (Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Python, or JavaScript).
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, including Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Helm, and GitOps practices.
- 3+ years of leadership experience managing distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones.
- Proven experience operating and scaling large Kubernetes environments (1000+ nodes, 30k+ pods).
- Strong understanding of distributed systems design, high availability architectures, and scalability principles.
- Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL in production environments.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures using systems such as Kafka or NATS.
- Experience designing or extending Kubernetes-based platforms, including operators, controllers, or custom primitives.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to balance hands-on engineering with strategic leadership and team development.
- Bonus: experience building internal developer platforms or working with tools such as Okteto, Gitpod, or similar.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with long-term incentive opportunities such as stock grants (depending on role and location).
- Flexible remote-first working model with optional co-working space access.
- Opportunity to work on one of the largest and most advanced Kubernetes-based infrastructure platforms.
- Exposure to high-scale distributed systems and cutting-edge developer experience tooling.
- Strong emphasis on ownership, autonomy, and technical decision-making.
- Inclusive, global, and collaborative engineering culture.
- Career growth opportunities in a rapidly scaling international technology organization.
- Additional perks and benefits tailored to employment type and country.
How Jobgether Works
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
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