Company Description If you have built an Internal Developer Platform before, we want to talk to you — you will go straight to the top of the queue. This is one of the most senior individual contributor roles in platform engineering at IFS. You will set the direction for our Internal Developer Platform and then build it — owning the vision and executing it. So please note that before you apply, you should be a hands-on Senior Principal Platform Engineer who builds through code and automates by default. Last week you would have been writing a lot of code We get a lot of applications from infrastructure and DevOps engineers, and we’d rather save you the time than reject you immediately. If your experience is CI/CD pipeline ownership, release engineering, cloud administration, or monitoring and incident response, that is valuable work but it is not what this role needs, and we will not be progressing applications on that basis. So tell us in your application: what did your developers use to create a new service, and what did they have to do before you built it? You should also have run Kubernetes in production — deployed to it, operated it, and been there when it broke. Kubernetes is a deal breaker here. You will also be making the case for this platform to product managers and engineering leaders, not just engineers, and you will need to do it in plain language. At IFS, we're building the next generation of AI-native enterprise software, transforming how some of the world's largest organisations manage assets, operations and critical services. This is an opportunity to work at the forefront of modern AI engineering,



building intelligent products that combine Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic AI and cloud-native technologies to solve complex, real-world business challenges at enterprise scale. We're looking for engineers who are passionate about building production AI systems and excited by the opportunity to shape the future of enterprise software. We deliver award-winning enterprise software solutions through the use of embedded digital innovation and a single cloud-based platform to help businesses be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a general, diverse environment; We have a platform that can do more than our developers are getting out of it. The gap isn’t capability, it’s the experience. Too much tribal knowledge, too many tickets to get things done, too much cognitive load between “I want to build something” and “it’s running in production.” As Senior Principal Platform Lead, Platform DX , you close that gap. Own the IDP vision, roadmap, and end-to-end execution at IFS, service catalogue, self-service scaffolding, golden paths, CI/CD integration, and developer portals Drive measurable adoption: onboarding time, self-service completion rates, platform NPS,



time-to-first-deployment, DORA metrics Partner with IAM, infrastructure, and SRE teams to ensure the developer-facing surface of the platform is coherent, reliable, and secure Establish feedback loops, developer surveys, usage analytics, office hours, and act on them relentlessly Influence platform strategy at the architectural level and represent the developer platform in technical leadership forums Mentor and technically guide Principal and Senior platform engineers, raising the bar on what “good DX” looks like at IFS You have 8+ years in platform, infrastructure, or developer-tooling engineering , with at least 3 years in a senior/staff IC or technical lead role. You’ve owned an IDP or developer portal end-to-end (Backstage, Port, Cortex, or equivalent), including the grind of keeping it adopted and maintained Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Crossplane), CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, and observability, you can go deep, not just direct You think about your internal developers as customers, not consumers, you’ve run surveys, tracked metrics, and made hard prioritisation calls based on that data Go (backend), React / Next.js (frontend), Kafka / RedPanda (event-driven), PostgreSQL , running on Kubernetes (AKS) You communicate clearly with engineering leaders and product directors, this role shapes platform strategy, not just implements it We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences.

📌 Senior Principal Platform Lead || Internal Developer Platform (España)
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