Lead Cloud Engineer @ Performativ

Build the platform every engineering team depends on and shape how Performativ scales through reliability, resilience, and world-class developer experience. As our Hands-On Lead Cloud Engineer, you will lead Mission Control, our Platform Engineering and Reliability team. Mission Control creates secure, self-service platform capabilities that enable product teams to build, deploy, and operate services independently. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll spend the majority of your time building production infrastructure and platform capabilities, leading through technical contribution rather than process.

• What You’ll Do 📈 ** Lead Mission Control while remaining deeply hands-on across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and reliability.
• Build and evolve the default, secure-by-default platform that enables product teams to build, deploy, and operate services independently.
• Create reusable AWS CDK constructs, infrastructure standards, and golden paths that reduce complexity and improve the developer experience across engineering.
• Set the technical direction for Mission Control, making pragmatic decisions about platform evolution, reliability, and developer experience while helping the team execute.
• Strengthen our reliability practices through SLOs, error budgets, runbooks, incident tooling, and post-incident improvements that drive meaningful change.
• Treat cloud cost as a first-class engineering concern by improving visibility, eliminating waste, and designing systems that scale efficiently.
• Partner closely with our security specialists to build secure-by-default platform capabilities and continuously strengthen our security posture.
• Own the evolution of the engineering platform that enables every product team to build, deploy, and operate services independently.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and feedback to a small team of experienced platform engineers while remaining deeply involved in delivery.
• What We’re Looking For 🎯 ** 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or similar production-focused environments.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers while remaining hands-on and actively contributing to code and infrastructure.
• Strong experience designing and operating production workloads on AWS, including Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with AWS CDK and TypeScript is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and practical application of its principles.
• A platform engineering mindset focused on building reusable capabilities, self-service, and engineering leverage.
• Strong operational judgment with experience in incident response, reliability engineering, SLOs, and continuous improvement.
• Comfort owning outcomes, making decisions in ambiguous environments, and improving engineering practices without adding unnecessary process.
• Actively leverages AI and agent-assisted engineering workflows to improve productivity while applying sound engineering judgment and maintaining high quality standards.
• Experience working within fintech or other regulated industries is a plus.
• Technologies you'll work with 💻 You don't need experience with every technology listed below.
• We care far more about strong engineering fundamentals, curiosity, and your ability to learn, build, and improve systems.
• Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS CDK (TypeScript), Terraform (bonus), and modern AWS infrastructure, networking, security, governance, and observability services.
• Engineering Tooling: GitHub Actions, Docker, container pipelines, cloud cost optimization, and observability tooling.
• Wider Engineering Stack: You'll collaborate with teams building services primarily in Golang and TypeScript, alongside React, React Native, Python, and PHP.
• What We Can Offer You 🌱 ** Trust and responsibility to shape the future of Performativ’s success in the European market from day 1.
• Join a fast-growing fintech scaleup supported by top-tier VCs.
• Work with intelligent, passionate, and driven professionals with experience from leading institutions (such as Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, BCG, Amazon etc).
• Accelerate your career with opportunities for professional development and leadership.
• Join a Team of Fintech heroes! 🚀 Performativ is making waves in the wealth management ecosystem and is changing the way investment advisors and financial institutions do business around the world.
• Working at Performativ means working at a fast-paced tech scaleup with intelligent people who are passionate about their work.
• We are on a scaling journey beyond all metrics and expectations and can't wait to have you join us in making a real impact.
• We are funded by some of the leading VC funds in the world and expectations are set to be established as a European market leader in a record amount of time.
• You can read more about our product at performativ.com We value passion 🔥 At Performativ, we are builders first.
• We are passionate with ambitious goals and value the time and effort people put into their work.
• You will be part of the family from day one, and responsible for making your mark and driving forward your vision.
• Autonomous work is embedded in our culture, and we are committed to ensure you have all the tools and support you need while acknowledging the importance of flexibility.