Lead Platform Engineer, Personio
Infrastructure and Cloud Delivery
+ Pre-IPO equity
2-3 days a week in office
Intelligent HR platform for SMEs
Posted today
Intelligent HR platform for SMEs
1001+ employees
Posted today
+ Pre-IPO equity
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help organisations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a highly collaborative engineer who thrives in a centralized platform role with a passion to identify & overcome system wide operational challenges by designing and implementing software engineering solutions that enable engineers to deliver change to production in a fast but stable manner
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience in a platform engineering, SRE or DevOps background
- Experience with cloud & infra concepts - E.G. AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog
- Experience with SaaS software development in distributed systems using programming languages such as Typescript, Java/Kotlin, Python
- Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions/GitOps tools)
- You have a high quality bar and lead by example regarding operational best practices
- You are data driven and are passionate about using metrics to define and evaluate your engineering design decisions
- 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 have excellent written and spoken English (level C1/C2 on the CEFR scale)
- Experience operating at scale in a high pace, rapid growth environment
- You never let a crisis go to waste, but instead learn from your mistakes and help your team to do the same
- 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!
Desirable
- You have experience with or passion to embrace new ways of working through the adoption of AI powered workflows using agents, skills & agentic feedback loops
- Your platform experience doesn’t end with core infrastructure, but you are equally interested in adjacent concepts related to observability, database operations & networking
- You have experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS)
What the job involves
- Join us to shape the future of software in the underserved and high-impact HR technology industry
- Your work will have a direct and tangible impact on customers, offering ownership and the chance to make a meaningful difference. As we prepare for significant growth, you'll face exciting challenges and have the opportunity to influence our path toward becoming one of the world's leading tech companies
- As a Lead Platform Engineer (Production Engineering), you will play a key role in building and evolving platform solutions related to AWS account management, centralised infra resource management, continuous delivery and kubernetes cluster management & operations
- Define and manage the company's AWS account structure, organisation & permission boundaries. Maintaining foundational infrastructure while also actively monitoring cost & utilisation
- Define and manage central infrastructure as code solutions that enable product teams to safely provision the infra resources they need while enforcing standardisation without causing bottlenecks
- Support the SDLC at Personio by defining, maintaining and operating GitOps based continuous delivery pipelines that support all worklords across all environments
- Operate and maintain EKS clusters across all environments and runtime integrations for all workloads
- Work hand-in-hand with developer experience, security & product teams to ensure the lower level platform meets the needs they outline to build, test & deploy changes across multiple environments
- Document platform capabilities and run internal training sessions where necessary
- Drive technical excellence with a design led mindset. Collaborate with cross-functional teams across the engineering organisation with the aim to simplify our platform architecture, build a golden path and help tackle technical debt
- Take ownership of operational responsibilities for platform services within your domain, including on-call participation
Our take
Personio was set up to automate and simplify HR tasks with a single software. This means reducing admin and accelerating efficiency with data and processes seamlessly integrating with each other.
What sets Personio apart from its competitors is the fact that its solution covers all the core HR processes that are key to every company’s success and can be performed in one place. This gives HR professionals the time and energy to focus on more strategic topics like talent development and employer branding. Now, Personio has over 15,000 customers, among which are 1.5 million employees using its software.
With substantial funding from multiple investors, Personio is focused on growing the tools it offers as well as expanding into what it describes as “people workflow automation". With 1.7 million small and medium-sized businesses still stuck in the spreadsheet era, Personio will deliver even more value to businesses in years to come.
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Meet the team
4 people
Aleena, Software Engineer
Our mission
Empower people with AIInsights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2022
$200m
Series E
Oct 2021
$270m
Series E
Total funding: $724.2m
Company benefits
- 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 Impact Days
- 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
- 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
Company values
- Exceed Customer Expectations: We anticipate, prioritise, and solve for the needs of our customers
- Deliver Exceptional Results: We dream big and move with urgency to make great things happen
- Elevate One Another: We work together as trusted partners to amplify our collective impact
- Care to Challenge: We care personally and challenge directly to unlock our full potential
- Ignite Positive Momentum: We embrace the challenge with a positive mindset and celebrate our wins together
Company HQ
Dublin, Ireland
Articles
Leadership
Hanno Renner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Also co-founded Feedbackme in 2015 and is a member of the "Advisory Board of the Young Digital Economy".
Jonas Rieke
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously worked in Business Development at komoot and Hendrick & Schwartz. They also worked in Investment Management at Project A Ventures.
Stephan Micklitz
(Chief Product & Technology Officer)Previously Senior Director of Engineering at Google, they also spent two years in a senior leadership role at Celonis, and later consulted for Revel8.
Lenke Taylor
(Chief People Officer)Leading people-centered vision and teams to build global companies.
Philip Lacor
(Chief Revenue Officer)Previously the CRO at Airbase and Envoy. They also spent 4 years at Dropbox in various VP roles. Prior to that, they spent nearly 6 years at Vodafone as a Director and MD of Enterprise Business Units.
Naman Khan
(Chief Marketing Officer)Data driven, user focused and able to grow product categories across both product lead & sales lead GTM models.
People progressing
Alexander joined Personio in 2020 as a Working Student in Sales Operations, since then, they have worked their way up and now serve as a Business Development Team Lead.
Victoria joined Personio in 2017 as an Account Executive and has since held a number of roles. Since 2025, they have served as the Director of Sales SMB Germany.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Personio
- Our Count Me In DEI survey is designed to measure our progress towards our DEI goals and identify gaps and improvement areas to inform our planning of future initiatives.
- Our Diversity Committee ensures all communities have an equal voice in everything we do and includes representation from our six Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). We build inclusion through monthly educational sessions, empowerment programs, and celebrations that promote awareness and allyship.
- Supporting and uplifting women in tech is one of the most impactful ways to drive positive change. Building on our 2025 initiatives, we have continued these efforts and introduced additional programs, maintaining our commitment to long-term progress as we move through 2026 and beyond.
- To find out more about Personio’s commitment to diversity and inclusion to ensure we are a company where everyone can embrace their uniqueness, visit our page https://www.personio.com/about-personio/diversity/
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