Platform Engineering Manager, Kaluza
£80-94k
+ Discretionary Bonus Scheme
1+ day a week in office
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
Open for applications
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
£80-94k
+ Discretionary Bonus Scheme
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help decarbonise the world.
Role
Who you are
- Have 5+ years in software/platform engineering, with 2+ years in a leadership role
- Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams and delivering complex technical projects
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms (preferably AWS), container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK, Cloudformation), and CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, etc.)
- Experience with SRE practices (SLAs, SLOs, error budgets)
- Familiarity with observability tools e.g. Datadog
- Prior experience building internal developer platforms (IDPs) or platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA)
What the job involves
- Reporting to: Head of Reliability Engineering
- You'll be joining the Kaluza Product and Technology community
- We’re a diverse team of engineers who strive to be data-led, product/outcome focused, always pushing the boundaries of technology and working at an extraordinary pace and scale
- As a collective we strive for engineering greatness by ensuring best practices are implemented wherever possible
- You’ll be working on the Kaluza’s Energy Retail platform
- This is a SaaS technology platform that aims to revolutionise the operating platforms for energy retailers globally
- This platform has been built with scale and technical quality in mind and is the foundation for decarbonisation efforts by Kaluza’s customers
- We are seeking an experienced and strategic Platform Engineering Manager to lead our Internal Developer Platform engineering team
- You will play a pivotal role in building and scaling the foundational infrastructure, services, and tools that support our software development lifecycle
- You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure our platform is secure, scalable, reliable, and developer-friendly
- Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of passionate platform engineers focused on building best of breed internal platforms and services
- Strategic Planning: Work with the relevant Product Managers, Staff engineers and Tech Leads to define and execute the platform engineering roadmap in alignment with product and organisational goals
- Operational Ownership: Work closely with peers in SRE with regards the development, and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, observability stacks, and developer tooling
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with application developers, SRE, security, and QA teams to understand their needs and deliver effective solutions
- Automation and Reliability: Drive adoption of infrastructure-as-code and site reliability engineering (SRE) principles to improve system performance and reduce operational overhead
- Security and Compliance: Ensure the platform adheres to best practices in security, compliance, and governance
- Technical Guidance: Input into architectural direction and provide hands-on guidance for solving complex engineering challenges
Application process
- Close Date for Applications: 16th June 2025
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The energy landscape is one of the most dynamic and fast-evolving sectors in the world. More and more energy retailers are looking to move further toward digitisation and reap the benefits of modern technology in an increasingly connected world. But many are struggling with the transition, held back by legacy operating systems which slow them down, drain resources, and hamper innovation.
This is where Kaluza comes in. An ecosystem of platforms whose services range from energy billing to smart electric vehicle charging, Its real-time cloud platforms transform supplier operations, reducing the cost to serve and boosting customer engagement. Essentially, its platform is aimed at helping businesses streamline their operations, saving them time, effort, and money which can be better invested elsewhere.
Kaluza is riding the momentum of a growing desire for sustainable business and services. Its program relating to electric car charging, for example, will be able to capitalise on huge new demand in that sector - over 100,000 electric cars are already on the roads in the UK, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance has predicted that electric cars will account for over 50% of new global car sales by 2040. As the globe moves further towards sustainable use of energy in the coming years, Kaluza could be very well positioned to capitalise.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $100m
Company HQ
Kensington, London, UK
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Leadership
Melissa Gander
(CEO)Initially joined Kaluza as COO before becoming CEO in 2024. Previously worked at OVO Energy in a number of roles, including Managing Director of Smart Metering and Group COO. Prior to that, they worked at INEXUS as a Process and Performance Analyst and a Customer Manager.
People progressing
Joined as Senior Technical Product Manager in 2017, promoted after 2 years to Head of Product, promoted again in 2024 to their current position as Director of Product.
Joined Kaluza in 2020 as a Software Engineer, and in less than 2 years was promoted to Software Engineering Manager and again promoted in 2023 to Senior Software Engineer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Kaluza
- We are developing an dedicated Early Talent programme with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business
- Our applicant tracking system, Greenhouse, also anonymously tracks the diversity of each candidate pipeline, so we can proactively take action when a pipeline needs to be more diverse
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused diversity job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within Kaluza and the wider community
- Within Kaluza we have belonging communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- We run monthly Inclusive Hiring Skills & Bias training that are open to all Kaluza employees
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