Lead Platform Engineer - Application Observability

Personio's intelligent HR platform helps small and medium-sized organizations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient. Our growing team of 1,800+ Personios across Europe and the US are building user-friendly products that delight our 14,000+ customers and their 1.5 million employees. Ready to make an impact from day one?

The Role: How you'll make an impact at Personio

At Personio we are on an amazing hypergrowth journey towards becoming the leading HR Platform in Europe! We’re looking for experienced Software Engineers to join our Product & Technology department, who will play an active role in shaping our engineering culture and the future of thousands of HR teams and organizations across Europe.

Within our engineering platform we focus on three primary areas, Developer Experience (DX), Infrastructure Engineering (IE) and Platform Tooling (PT). Within PT we focus on building solutions that enable other engineers to increase their development velocity, improve their application observability and deploy and release their software. This specific role is for a lead level engineer within our Application Observability team. This team is tasked with partnering with engineers across all levels to design and build new tools, automation and infrastructure as code intended to help teams at Personio adhere to observability best practices.

Role Responsibilities: What you'll do

• You will research, engineer and experiment with new ways to either improve our observability platform by providing efficient and effective tooling, conceptualizing solutions, driving migrations to completion etc.

• You will foster relationships and partner with other platform and product teams to both identify pain points and provide impactful solutions in an iterative manner.

• You will act as a technical leader within your team, proactively identifying problems and proposing solutions that help set the team's priorities and roadmap.

• You will be hands-on and lead larger projects which may have high levels of uncertainty and risk attached to them. And you will guide and mentor other engineers who are assigned to your projects.

• You will use your existing experience to help set new standards of excellence and drive the platform forward with new ideas and strategies that help maintain the quality, reliability, security, performance and cost-effectiveness of the product and platform.

• You will partner with your engineering manager, keeping them up to date and informed with technical details across multiple projects. Helping to ensure the team is delivering results in an iterative fashion that is driven by impact and promotes a culture of experimentation and shipping to learn.

Role Requirements: What you need to succeed

• At least 8 years of software engineering experience building and designing scalable applications, tools or distributed systems. You understand the needs of software engineers working in product teams, you’ve been in their shoes, and can empathize with them. You want to help your fellow engineers to achieve maximum efficiency.

• You have strong platform engineering/DevOps expertise, ideally experience with a passion for observability topics. You are opinionated on how best to monitor distributed systems and provide central o11y capabilities of other teams to efficiently debug issues and mitigate outages.

• You have working knowledge of elements of stack: DataDog, AWS, Kotlin/JVM, TypeScript, Terraform, CDK, Sentry.

• You have leadership experience having previously acted as a mentor or role model to other engineers. Ideally leading pair and mob programming sessions, as well as setting up and running technical brainstorming and solution design sessions.

• You strike a balance between a strategic and tactical mindset. You are capable of working with your engineering manager to translate the platform's strategic vision into tactical, achievable objectives for the team.

• You are data driven and are passionate about using metrics to define and evaluate your engineering design decisions.

• You have an excellent written and spoken English (level C1/C2 on the CEFR scale)

• We are experiencing rapid growth and are “building our plane while flying it” so bring your agile mindset to the table!

• You embrace feedback - no one is perfect, neither are we. So let’s make this an opportunity to praise and learn from each other.

• Finally, you have a good sense of humor. Have fun with us, learn with us from mistakes and bring your good vibes!Why Personio

Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.
Aside from our people, culture, and mission, check out some of the other benefits that make Personio a great place to work:

• Receive a competitive reward package – reevaluated each year – that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity

• Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!)

• Make an impact on the environment and society with 2 (fully paid) Impact Days –  one for an individual project of your choice and one for a company-wide initiative

• Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities with PersonioCares

• Find your best way to work with our office-led, remote-friendly PersonioFlex! Most teams offer a roughly 50% remote, 50% in-office working framework

• Invest in your development with an annual personal development budget to use on professional memberships, external certifications, conferences, and more

• Connect with your fellow Personios at regular company and team events like All Company Culture Week and local year-end celebrations

• Engage in a high-impact working environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes