Senior Principal Platform Lead AI & Agentic Systems Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Research

• Full-time

This is one of the most senior individual contributor roles in platform engineering  will set the direction for our Internal Developer Platform and then build it. You will be owning the vision and executing it.

So please note that before you apply, you should be a hands-on Senior Principal Platform Engineer who builds through code and automates by default. Last week you would have been writing a lot of code!

This is a greenfield build: no Internal Developer Platform, no tooling chosen, no templates written, and no roadmap waiting for you. This is an individual contributor role, not a management one — you will not have a team to delegate to, and running pipelines and infrastructure for other teams is not the same as giving them something they can serve themselves with.

We want to understand what you personally built that other engineers use without coming to you.

You will also be making the case for this platform to product managers and engineering leaders, not just engineers, and you will need to do it in plain language. If you cannot explain what you have built to someone non-technical, this is not the role for you.

You should also have run Kubernetes in production — deployed to it, operated it, and been there when it broke. If your experience is CI/CD pipeline ownership, release engineering, cloud administration or monitoring and incident response, that is valuable work but it is not what this role needs, and we will not be progressing applications on that basis.

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. We deliver award-winning enterprise software solutions through the use of embedded digital innovation and a single cloud-based platform to help businesses be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™.

At IFS, we're flexible, we're innovative, and we're focused not only on how we can engage with our customers, but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society's greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and accept that there are so many different perspectives in this world. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We're looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #Make Your Moment  so that we can help others make theirs.

If you want to change the status quo, we'll help you…