About the role
Engineering Manager (Infrastructure Platform)
Department: The Platform
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Cyprus
Description
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and develop a team of infrastructure engineers responsible for critical production systems. This role combines people management with strong technical expertise, requiring a solid infrastructure background and deep knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, distributed systems, networking, and infrastructure automation.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 47 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
About inDrive
inDrive is a global mobility and urban services platform. The inDrive app has been downloaded over 240 million times and was the second most downloaded mobility app in 2022 and 2023. In addition to ride-hailing, inDrive provides an expanding list of urban services, including intercity transportation, freight delivery, task assistance, and courier delivery. In 2023, inDrive launched New Ventures, a venture and M&A arm.
inDrive operates in 888 cities in 48 countries. Driven by its mission of challenging social injustice, the company is committed to having a positive impact on the lives of one billion people by 2030. It 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.
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Job details
Location
Cyprus
Funding
Total raised
$387M
Last stage
Series C
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
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