Senior Engineering Manager - Cloud Infrastructure team

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Hi, we’re Back Market. We’re here to help make tech reliable, affordable, and better than new . We're a global marketplace for refurbished devices, helping lower our collective environmental impact by providing trustworthy, affordable tech with 92% less carbon emissions than new. Our mission is simple : to do more with what we already have.

Our Cloud Infrastructure team (part of our CloudOPS group, working alongside Performance optimisation and developer experience teams) empowers Back Market engineers with reliable and sustainable infrastructure services across Europe, the US, and APAC region. We’re currently searching for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and mentor this talented infrastructure team. You’ll report to the previous manager, who is taking on CloudOPS scope. This is a great opportunity to step into an established role, supporting a group of 8 experienced engineers, who are based in Paris, Barcelona, and remotely in France.

What You’ll Be Doing

Lead, mentor, and empower a highly skilled cloud infrastructure team of 8 engineers, fostering a culture of trust, autonomy, and continuous improvement

Collaborate closely with your colleagues in our CloudOps Group, including SRE and Engineering Productivity teams, partnering actively with Staff Engineers and stakeholders across Back Market to build relevant, adopted infrastructure services

Handle operational responsibilities gracefully : coordinating incidents, maintaining calm, and managing an effective and robust on-call rotation

Treat infrastructure as a product, developing clear metrics-driven approaches to measuring service usage and satisfaction, including internal services such as custom Kubernetes resources for provisioning Buckets, Key-Value stores, databases, and protected public endpoints or secure privilege-escalation tooling to support engineers during on-call incidents

Prioritize and evolve your team’s roadmap iteratively, based on feedback, direct observations, and clear adoption metrics. Balance operations with the platform you build

Take ownership of cost-efficiency and sustainability initiatives within infrastructure, actively reducing Back Market’s engineering costs and carbon footprint

Embrace iteration and experimentation, supporting your team in rapidly learning from both successes and failures

Help the team, the platform, and the technical organization to grow and evolve on our existing toolset built around Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes (GKE), Cloudflare, Terraform, Crossplane, Backstage, and a custom CLI

We Should Meet If

You bring proven experience managing infrastructure / platform engineering teams in an international technology-driven environment

You create a team environment where team members feel like they belong and are supported to do their best work

You have a strong understanding of cloud infrastructure tooling, especially Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes (GKE), Terraform, and ideally Crossplane

You understand infrastructure delivery as products, measuring success through adoption, clear metrics, and satisfaction—not merely as technical output

You feel strongly about cost efficiency, sustainability, and actively reducing environmental footprint from your team's decisions

You’re comfortable coordinating incident responses, handling complex operational environments, dynamic backlogs, and on-call rotations

You are pragmatic and data-driven

You prioritize people and relationships, showing servant leadership qualities, empathy, and excellent coaching and communication skills

You’re fluent and comfortable working professionally in English

Bonus points

Familiarity or experience with Golang

Experience working closely with Performance optimization and developer experience

Previous use of or exposure to engineer-focused developer portals such as Backstage

Understanding of regulatory or compliance considerations (like GDPR, PCI-DSS, ISO27001, etc.)

Why now is a particularly exciting time to join Back Market

Global reach : Work with teams distributed across the EU, US, and APAC

Talented colleagues : Lead an experienced infrastructure team as part of our wider collaborative CloudOPS group

True sustainability focus : Directly improve engineering cost-efficiency and actively contribute to reducing our carbon footprint

Clear data-driven impact : See the direct impact and adoption of your team’s services through measurable results

Exciting growth : Join at a thrilling moment as our current EM moves upwards internally, stepping into a mature and impactful role

Recruitment process

Intro call with one of our Talent Acquisition partners - 45 min

Leadership principles interview with Romain and Sami - 60 min

Q&A about Infrastructure with 2 DevOps engineers - 45 min

Technical assessment - 45 min

Stakeholders interview with Guillaume and Alex - 60 min

Cultural fit with Paul, VP of Platform - 45 min

If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process, please discuss this with the Talent Acquisition Team.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Internet Marketplace Platforms

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