Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Team

Bloomreach is building the world’s premier agentic platform for personalization. Become an Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager at Bloomreach and lead our Infrastructure team as a core foundation for product engineering. In this role, you will own the platform capabilities that power personalization across our clients’ websites and mobile apps, enabling fast experimentation and multi-variant testing at scale. You will lead the team responsible for our core infrastructure stack - Google Cloud Platform (GCP), databases, observability platform, and Kubernetes, and partner closely with Product, Security, and application engineering teams to ensure our platform is reliable, scalable, secure, cost-efficient, and developer-friendly. This is a full-time role based in one of our Central European offices (Bratislava, Brno, Prague) or remote.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a high-performing Infrastructure Engineering team (hiring, mentoring, performance, career development); Organize team activities and delivery rhythm - lead standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and other rituals that keep the team aligned, unblock work early, and continuously improve how we operate; Own infrastructure strategy and execution across GCP services and cloud architecture, Kubernetes platform operations and evolution, database reliability, performance, and lifecycle management, and observability platform (metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards); Act as a foundation team leader for application teams by providing cloud architecture expertise and consultation, shared infrastructure standards and best practices, reusable platform tooling and self-service capabilities; Drive reliability and operational excellence through SLOs/SLIs, incident management, postmortems, and automation; Establish strong partnership with product and application engineering teams to improve developer experience and delivery speed; Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to enforce best practices for access control, data protection, and auditability; Own infrastructure financial governance, including cost monitoring and visibility across cloud resources, cost optimization initiatives and accountability with engineering teams

Requirements

5+ years in software/platform/infrastructure engineering, with 2+ years in people leadership; Proven experience managing infrastructure teams in cloud-native environments; Strong hands-on understanding of GCP services (compute, networking, IAM, storage, monitoring), Kubernetes in production, database operations (SQL/NoSQL, replication, backup/DR, tuning), observability tooling and SRE practices; Experience building foundation/platform capabilities for multiple engineering teams; Experience with cloud cost monitoring, budget ownership, and cost optimization at scale; Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences; Ability to set strategy while remaining pragmatic and execution-focused

Nice to have

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and policy-as-code; Experience with service mesh, platform APIs, or internal developer platforms; Familiarity with SOC2/ISO27001/GDPR-related infrastructure controls; Experience supporting multi-region or global-scale systems

Benefits

A great deal of freedom and trust; Flexible working hours; Virtual-first work with several Bloomreach Hubs; Company events; 5 paid days off to volunteer; People Development Program; Communication coach; Leader Development Program; $1,500 professional education budget annually; Employee Assistance Program; Subscription to Calm; DisConnect days - one additional day off each quarter; Sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities; Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers; Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options; Company performance bonus; Employee referral bonus up to $3,000; Work anniversaries