Engineering Manager - Platform Engineering

Salsify · Portugal

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • Posted 2026-10-29
  • Confirmed live on 10 November 2026

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Job description

Come join a company who is a key leader in the industry scaling the next core commerce infrastructure and on the path from $100M to $500M! Founded in 2012, Salsify helps brand manufacturers, distributors, and retailers in over 80 countries collaborate to win on the digital shelf. As the market leader globally, our products are shopper-centric, frictionless, and create memorable commerce experiences. Our products provide a competitive edge through experiences that improve brand trust, amplify product differentiation and assortments, increase conversion rate, improve profit margins, and speed time to market.

Learn how the world’s largest brands, including Mars, L'Oreal, Coca-Cola, Bosch, and GSK, as well as retailers and distributors such as E.Leclerc, Carrefour, Metro, and Intermarché use Salsify everyday to stand out on the digital shelf.

At Salsify, we strive to embody an equitable, diverse, and inclusive company culture. We are united across countries, levels, tenures, and a host of other dimensions of diversity. We understand that while work is just one aspect of who we are, a truly inclusive culture accounts for the full authenticity of every single human being that works here.

About the Opportunity

Engineering Manager for the Platform Engineering (Infrastructure) team — 7 engineers across Portugal and the US, owning the infrastructure every other engineering team at Salsify builds on: Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS and Azure, CI/CD, secrets management, observability, and our internal management platform.

This is a hands-on, tactical engineering management role. The team is senior, autonomous and technically strong. They don't need to be told what to build. They need someone who removes obstacles, holds the standard, protects their focus, and represents their work credibly upstream.

How You'll Make an Impact:

• Runs production infrastructure across several platforms;

• Owns IMP, our internal management platform (Go, Temporal, GraphQL), through which the organisation provisions services, manages secrets, runs Kubernetes operations and deploys;

• Operates the security programme in partnership with InfoSec — cloud posture, vulnerability management, secrets rotation, access management;

• Delivers a roadmap alongside all of the above: platform migrations, version-currency upgrades, cost reduction and new platform capability;

What you'd own in the first year

• A team of 7 across several timezones;

• The balance between roadmap and reactive work — the hardest and most valuable thing in this role;

• Representing infrastructure upstream — to product teams, to engineering leadership, and increasingly to finance and procurement on cost and vendor decisions;

• The team's growth and healthiness;

You'll Enjoy This Role If You Have

• Experience managing engineers in an infrastructure, platform or SRE context — this team will know quickly whether you understand their work

• Tactical strength. Comfortable in the detail: unblocking a stuck migration, making a judgment call during an incident, deciding what gets deferred when everything is urgent

• A track record of protecting a team's focus against a continuous stream of external requests, without becoming a bottleneck yourself

• The ability to work with senior, opinionated engineers — challenging their thinking without undermining their autonomy

• Clear written communication, particularly translating technical trade-offs for non-technical audiences. A significant part of this role is making infrastructure legible to people who don't work in it

• Comfort with ambiguity and change

Strongly preferred

• Hands-on familiarity with Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS — you don't need to write the code, but you need to follow the conversation and ask the right questions

• Experience with cloud cost management and vendor negotiation

• Having worked in a security-conscious environment — SOC/ISO audit exposure, vulnerability management programmes

• Experience managing across timezones

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At Salsify, we maintain 3 core principles as part of our Compensation Philosophy:

• We pay market rates, which are competitive and equitable

• We pay based on performance and proficiency, not tenure

• We adjust proactively; when the market moves, we do too

The posted compensation range reflects the base salary for this position. In addition to base salary, some eligible roles may also have a commission plan or a bonus incentive. All full-time employees are invited to participate in our Total Rewards plan, which includes health & medical benefits, PTO, and more. Offers to join Salsify are based on a few criteria, including the scope of the role, the candidate’s work experience, targeted skills, internal equity of the team, and external market data.

National Pay Range
€88.000—€92.000 EUR

Salsify loves a good success story and it would be our privilege to help write yours! We recognize that talent and potential come in all forms and that years of experience

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