Platform Engineering Manager
Summary
Lead a platform/infra team maintaining 60PB+ monthly traffic, 300k+ service requests/sec, and 500k+ Kafka messages/sec while improving DevOps practices and tooling.
We’re a team of 500+ professionals who develop cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions for thousands of the world’s best known businesses, including Fortune 500 companies.
What’s in store for you:
You’ll be solving complex challenges and maintaining our own infrastructure with 60PB+ monthly data traffic. Here are its scale and maturity in numbers:
- 6PB+ Ceph storage
- 60PB+ monthly data traffic through our systems
- 300k+ service requests/sec processed
- 500k+ Kafka messages/sec streamed
The team waiting for you:
Oxylabs' Platform is the backbone that lets the rest of engineering move fast and ship reliably. Our code-first approach values solving problems through programming rather than manual processes, and we're impelmenting AI-powered tooling to further enhance our capabilities. We value effective delegation, timely delivery, and incremental improvements. You'll have a significant influence on our DevOps practices and tooling choices.
In this role, you’ll:
- Lead one of our existing Platform teams (infra/DevOps) and keep delivery consistent and predictable.
- Own people leadership - hire, mentor, and develop engineers while keeping the team healthy and performing.
- Manage capacity, risk, and dependencies: plan realistically, unblock the team quickly, and handle escalations early.
- Align scope and priorities with the Director of Infrastructure, keeping stakeholders aligned and avoiding churn.
- Strengthen predictable operations - make sure ownership, incident flow, and escalation paths are clear and well-practiced.
Your skills & experience:
- Proven experience leading an engineering team (hiring, coaching, performance, delivery ownership).
- Strong stakeholder management: can translate business needs into a clear plan and keep people aligned.
- Pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset: can make trade-offs, push standards, and improve reliability without slowing the team down.
Nice to have:
- Background in platform infrastructure.
- Hands on Engineering experience.
Salary & Benefits:
- Gross salary: 5500 EUR/month - 7600 EUR/gross. Keep in mind that we are open to discussing a different salary based on your skills and experience.
- Growth & Learning: 40+ internal learning options, external conferences, mentorship, and year-round knowledge-sharing.
- Health & Well-being: Private health insurance, psychotherapy, on-site well-being consultants, 24/7 gym access, and a wellness app.
- Celebration & Community: Team events, an overseas workation, quarterly team-building budgets, and plenty of ways to mark milestones together.
- Plus bonus vacation days, paid life-moment days off, barista coffee, and all the tools you need. See the full list of benefits here: .