Engineering Manager (Infrastructure Platform)
About this role
Engineering Manager (Infrastructure Platform)
Department: The Platform
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Cyprus
Description
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, and develop a team of infrastructure engineers responsible for critical production systems
- Own team execution, delivery, and day-to-day prioritization in alignment with infrastructure strategy and architectural direction
- Run the shared goals and collaborate with the Infrastructure Security, and other platform teams
- Translate infrastructure priorities into clear team plans, milestones for both infrastructure and product teams
- Work with Staff and Senior engineers to ensure technical solutions are delivered effectively and aligned with established architectural principles
- Ensure the reliability, availability, and operational readiness of systems owned by the team
- Own the team’s operational practices, incident response, postmortems, and completion of follow-up actions
- Set clear expectations, run regular 1:1s, provide actionable feedback, and support engineers through performance reviews and Individual Development Plans
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- 7+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering, including 2+ years in an engineering management role within a Platform cluster
- Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams responsible for production infrastructure or platform systems
- Strong infrastructure engineering background, with sufficient technical depth to review architecture, challenge decisions, and work effectively with Staff and Senior engineers
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, especially AWS, Kubernetes, distributed systems, networking, and infrastructure automation
- Experience operating highly available, business-critical systems, including incident management, on-call, postmortems, capacity planning, and operational excellence
- Proven ability to set priorities, build execution plans, and deliver complex engineering initiatives while balancing reliability, technical debt, operational work, and long-term investments
- Ability to delegate technical ownership and enable senior engineers to lead major technical initiatives
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to align teams, manage dependencies, and resolve organizational, process, and technical bottlenecks
- Professional working proficiency in English
- Experience operating infrastructure across multiple regions, data centers, or hybrid cloud environments
- Experience managing teams with significant networking or distributed infrastructure responsibilities
- Experience working in organizations where infrastructure teams provide internal platforms and services to a large number of engineering teams
Why join us
- Help us challenge injustice by creating fair choices for millions of people across 48 countries.
- Develop your professional skills with access to mentoring, career consulting, and learning programs
- Collaborate with teams around the world and gain international experience through our Global Talent Exchange Program
- Engage in company-wide challenges, awards, sports activities, employee-led social impact and volunteering projects
- Work alongside people who take initiative, speak openly, and challenge themselves to grow
- Improve your language skills through co-financed courses and internal speaking clubs
- Annual salary from 90 700 EUR gross
Company at a glance
inDrive is a global mobility and urban services platform. The inDrive app has been downloaded over 400 million times, and is the second most downloaded mobility app globally for the third consecutive year. In addition to ride-hailing, inDrive provides an expanding list of urban services, including intercity transportation and delivery. In 2023, inDrive launched New Ventures, a venture and M&A arm.
inDrive operates in over 1200+ cities in 48 countries.
inDrive’s Purpose and Supermission: We Challenge Injustice Through Fair Choices.
Injustice is to the inequality of opportunities and abuse of power by corporations, society and individuals.
inDrive’s strategic goal: Provide choice for 1+ billion people through business and non-profit initiatives. The company pursues this goal both through its core business, which supports local communities via a fair pricing model; and through the work of inVision, its non-profit arm. inVision’s community empowerment programs help to advance education, sports, arts and sciences, gender equality and other vital initiatives.
For more information visit www.inDrive.com
Top Benefits
- Mentoring
- Career consulting
- Learning programs
- Global Talent Exchange Program
- Company-wide challenges
- Awards
- Sports activities
- Employee-led social impact projects
- Volunteering projects
- Language courses
- Internal speaking clubs
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