Lead Platform Engineer

We are:

Yotpo’s Platform Engineering group. Our mission is to provide a platform boosting agility, speeding up time to market, and enhancing overall product quality and user experience.
Yotpo’s RnD teams have end-to-end ownership of the products they build; full ci-cd; no qa department(!)
Ownership has two sides: With freedom, comes responsibility. With autonomy, comes accountability.

Our environment :

1. ~2500-4000 AWS servers
2. 80% workload runs on spots
3.~2,000,000 requests per minute(!)
4. We are Fully dockerized

You are:

A highly organized and detail-oriented platform engineer who excels in communication within diverse, international teams. You have a strong grasp of agile methodologies and are skilled at leading teams in delivering high-quality results efficiently. You have a technical background of software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering.

• You have experience leading cross-company initiatives and you enjoy it.
• Independent worker – You can take a subject and own it – end to end.
• You are a Software Engineer with 5+ years of Experience in Java / PHP / Ruby /Golang or similar. You love OOP design, design patterns, and clean code.
• You have BSc in computer science or equivalent
• An autodidact – You are not afraid to dive deep into new technologies.
• You are a team player with a strong sense of ownership. We win together, We do what it takes, we figure it out, we help each other – and we win, as a team.

Bonus Points:

• Professional Scrum Master Certification (PSM) or equivalent
• Experienced/Certification with AWS and/or Kubernetes
• Knowledge in Infra as code (Terraform Cloud). No manual labor here.
• Experience with Helm
• Experience in designing and building GitOps CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, ArgoRollouts, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent)
• Experience with databases (MySQL/MongoDB/ElasticSearch)
• Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus/Grafana/NewRelic/Coralogix)

You will:

• Facilitate team meetings, such as: Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Retrospective, etc.
• Lead organization wide initiatives and change management.
• Promote agile best practices and continuous improvement within the team.
• Foster collaboration within the team, as well as with other stakeholders, to maintain alignment and focus on deliverables.
• Be a key player in driving Yotpo’s Platform Engineering team towards operational excellence.
• Act as a servant leader for the team, helping remove obstacles and ensure smooth project progress.
• Track and report on team progress using metrics and KPIs.
• Work with team members to manage dependencies and risks effectively.
• Support and encourage team autonomy, accountability, and ownership of deliverables.

What we offer:

• A clear career path with opportunities for growth and leadership.
• Track to success – work in a dynamic organization with ambient and laid-back office atmosphere
• Individualized career development, rewards and recognition.
• Work-life balance – 25 days paid vacation with add-ons for loyalty, regular team buildings and celebrations in and outside the country
• Additional health insurance package
• Internal mobility program and refer-a-friend program
• Managing a fixed monthly budget for social benefits thru Re:Benefit – a flexible online benefits solution
• Food vouchers – monthly
• E-learning portals and knowledge sharing sessions.
• Company backed Hackathons, Tech conferences, workshops events, etc
• Stocked kitchen and bar.
• Equity in options.
• Hybrid working – 2 days/week in the office