VP, Platform Engineering

We're a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to become the trusted Data & AI Platform for everyone, leveraging the most popular open-source technologies like Apache Kafka, Aiven for PostgreSQL, Aiven for Clickhouse, and Aiven for OpenSearch. to help companies accelerate time-to-market, drive efficiency, and build innovative solutions across any cloud.

About this Team:
In our Product team at Aiven, engineers drive significant impact through coding and problem solving. You'll have the opportunity to contribute to challenging projects that transcend the cloud provider limitations, work alongside exceptional engineers, and continuously expand your technical expertise. We strive to create an environment that encourages problem solving and results over following directions, to make better decisions for our customers, our products and our employees.

The Role:
Aiven is seeking a VP of Platform Engineering to lead Aiven Platform Development and Production Engineering. You will own the future of our cloud-native and API-first platform that serves hundreds of thousands of developers globally, across several cloud providers. You will also manage the Service Reliability Engineering team that guarantees the SLA of our services across dozens of cloud regions. Lastly, you will play a vital role in defining engineering standards, best practices and setting the bar on what good looks like for all technical teams across Aiven.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish Aiven's Technical North Star: Architect a clear, compelling technical vision that guides the creation of a scalable, adaptable, and future-proof architecture.
• Deliver a World-Class, AI-ready Platform: Oversee the development and delivery of core platform services that can support both human and agentic workflows, including management and control planes for service orchestration, fleet management, resource provisioning, observability, analytics, internal platform interfaces, subscription & billing management.
• AI everywhere: Experience and lead the integration of AI to drive productivity and accelerate value delivery.
• Own the Internal Developer Experience: Maintain an active roadmap for continuous improvement of the internal developer experience.
• CI/CD: Lead the evolution towards a state-of-the-art CI/CD pipeline to ensure rapid, reliable, and automated software delivery, enabling faster iteration and higher quality.
• Ensure Technical Governance: Set and uphold software engineering best practices, patterns, and guardrails to maintain high code quality, efficient testing practices, predictable unit economics (finops) and consistent technical architecture across all engineering teams.
• Guarantee Aiven's SLA and sustainability of the platform through SRE best practices.

Our Offer:
If you ask us what's the best thing about working for Aiven, many will probably say it's the high concentration of talent from around the world that we have here. Enjoy the agile environment of a hyperscale scale-up where you can truly make an impact and have fun while at it.

We invest in you:

• Participate in Aiven's equity plan.
• With Aiven locations spanning the globe, we want all of our crabs to find the right balance with our hybrid work policy.
• Get the equipment you need to set yourself up for success.
• Step up your career game with real employer support (use one of our learning platforms, annual learning budget, and more).
• Get holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program.

Make a difference at Aiven:

• Contribute to open-source projects that you find meaningful outside of work - and get paid for it Our Plankton program recognizes extra work to the open-source ecosystem for developers and non-developers alike.
• Use up to 5 days per year to volunteer for a good cause of your choice.
• Join one of our team member resource groups - empower yourself and others in missions that resonate with you.

Amazing What's next?
Once applying you should hear from our Talent Experience team within 5 days regarding the status of your application. If you are selected to move forward you can generally expect the following interview stages:

• 60-minute call with one of our Talent Experience Partners
• 60-minute Domain Leadership interview with the hiring manager
• 60-minute People/Dept Leadership interview
• 60-minute Case Study/Panel interview
• 60-minute Values interview

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Equal Opportunities:
Aiven provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, marital and family status or without regard to any other similar personal attributes. Aiven complies with applicable local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, training and any other terms and conditions related to employment.

At Aiven we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs in our working environment and job application procedures. We make all reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities or who otherwise need support to thrive in the workplace. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. There is an option to request a discussion in the application process but if you have any questions before applying please write to us