Staff Platform Engineer @ Enhesa Lissabon
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The Staff Platform Engineer acts as a strategic hybrid of a technical visionary and a high-velocity platform builder. This is not a position for legacy infrastructure management or ticket-taking. The engineer must treat product developers as internal customers, possessing a strong "platform-as-product" mindset with opinionated, pragmatic views on cloud-native delivery. Enhesa is undergoing a transformative scale-up growth phase. The engineering wing is moving toward a high-seniority model to scale modern cloud infrastructure, optimize efficiency, and completely remove delivery friction.
The role operates across a 60/40 delivery-to-leadership split at the intersection of cloud architecture and developer automation:
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Platform Vision & Roadmap Management (60% Primary Deliverable Focus): Evolve the core internal developer platform (IDP) vision. Partner with engineering leadership to translate technical goals into clear roadmaps. Design and build capabilities using tools like Backstage, Humanitec, or Port.
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Golden Paths & Reusable Workflows: Lead the design and adoption of standardized service templates, opinionated configuration defaults, and automated workflows to build deployment consistency across squads.
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Developer Experience (DevEx) Optimization: Treat DevEx as a first-class metric. Actively eliminate friction points in onboarding, APIs, CLI tools, and documentation.
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Developer Experience Measurement: Establish engineering telemetry frameworks using DORA metrics, the SPACE framework, internal developer feedback loops, and platform adoption analytics.
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Transversal Leadership (40% Leadership Focus): Coach and mentor platform engineers in deep "platform thinking." Lead cross-functional discovery workshops, write Architectural Decision Records (ADRs), and champion cloud-native standards across the wider 80–100 person tech group.
Profiel
Background and experience:
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (Master’s degree preferred).
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Minimum of 8 years in software engineering, with at least 4 years exclusively focused on building internal developer platforms (IDP), cloud-native infrastructure, or scalable developer tooling.
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Technical Stack Expertise:
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Advanced Kubernetes, Terraform, and Public Cloud (with an explicit preference for Azure).
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Hands-on experience with tools/concepts like Backstage, Humanitec, Port, Crossplane, or custom Kubernetes operators.
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End-to-end automation design using Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins
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High proficiency in languages such as Go, Python, Shell, Java, or .NET.
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Bonus Points: Proven experience significantly altering, sunsetting, or replacing a major underperforming legacy platform system; or working within highly regulated software environments.
Core Competencies
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Proactivity: A resilient "Can Do" attitude combined with a customer-service mindset toward internal developers. Able to resolve cross-departmental friction autonomously.
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Influence & Leadership: The ability to influence engineering culture and drive pattern adoption through technical merit and mentorship rather than direct management authority.
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Communication: Exceptional written communication skills; capable of producing precise technical documentation, roadmap narratives, and clear Architectural Decision Records (ADRs).
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Pragmatism & Conviction: Confident making and defending opinionated technical decisions using concrete data, while remaining flexible enough to pivot when business metrics shift.
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Languages: Full fluency in written and spoken English is mandatory. Knowledge of Portuguese is a valuable asset.
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Job with a Purpose: A direct opportunity to build software supporting global environmental sustainability and human safety.
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Scale-up Environment: Join a rapidly growing global software company backed by active PE investment on its journey toward becoming a tech ‘unicorn’.
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High Impact & Visibility: Play a foundational role shaping the engineering culture, developer workflows, and technical architectures of an evolving B2B cloud platform.
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Modern Tech Adoption: Enjoy full corporate and budgetary backing to experiment with and implement the market's latest platform engineering patterns.
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Flexibility & Balance: Competitive compensation package combined with a flexible hybrid/home-working policy designed to support a healthy work-life balance.
Staff Platform Engineer @ Enhesa Lissabon
Enhesa stands as the leading global partner for multinational corporations seeking excellence in Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) and product compliance. Dedicated to building a safer, more sustainable world, the company combines deep legal expertise with cutting-edge technology to help the world’s biggest brands—including household names like Nike—stay ahead of complex, ever-changing regulations across more than 300 jurisdictions.
With a global reach, Enhesa serves over 1,400 customers, operates in 35 languages, and maintains 9 global offices. The company is currently on a high-growth trajectory toward "unicorn" status, backed by prominent private equity firms CGE and Bregal Sagemount. Innovation is central to this expansion, anchored by a dedicated IT Hub in Portugal where artificial intelligence is utilized as a core force multiplier in the daily engineering workflow.
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