Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure
Bulgaria · Sofia · EUR 72,000-101,250 / year · 3+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 19, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Bulgaria · Sofia
- Salary
- EUR 72,000-101,250 / year
About Tide
- At Tide, we help SMEs save time and money in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions, from invoicing to accounting.
- Tide is transforming the small business banking market and now supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France.
- Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data driven decisions to serve our mission: to help SMEs save time and money so they can get back to doing what they love.
- Tide facts:
- - Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs
- - Over 2 million members globally and rapidly growing
About the role
- Tide is hiring for a proven Engineering Manager to lead the Core Infrastructure team.
- The successful candidate will lead, plan, protect, empower, control costs, collaborate, balance priorities, and measure team productivity.
Responsibilities
- Hire, coach, and set clear goals for a team of engineers.
- Develop a roadmap for architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and capacity for our infrastructure, databases, and Kubernetes clusters.
- Make sure our platforms meet their targets for availability and security.
- Reduce the time that product engineers need to deploy and run services on the platform.
- Help product engineering teams make cost-efficient choices for services that run on our platform.
- Share team context and build cross-team relationships.
- Weigh technical decisions against team and company goals.
- Track team productivity with metrics such as DORA and SPACE, and drive measurable improvement.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in distributed computing
- 3+ years in engineering leadership roles
- A degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Detailed knowledge of AWS, GCP, or both, in a regulated environment that requires security guardrails
- Experience running Kubernetes in production with GitOps (ArgoCD preferred)
- An understanding of how to use AI tools such as Claude, and how to help your engineers and customers use them efficiently
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience managing stakeholders across teams and functions
Preferred qualifications
- Platform engineering experience that abstracts Kubernetes complexity into a stable internal product
- Experience creating and maintaining Kubernetes operators
Benefits
- Gross annual salary ranging from €72,000 to €101,250
- 25 days paid annual leave
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities
- Extended maternity and paternity leave covered by the company
- Personal L&D budget in the amount of 500 EUR per year
- Additional health & dental insurance
- Mental wellbeing platform
- Fully covered Multisports card
- Food vouchers
- Snacks, light food, drinks in the office
Workplace
- Flexible workplace model supporting both in-person and remote work
Skills
- AWS
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- GitOps
- ArgoCD
- Terraform
- Terragrunt
- Helm
- Crossplane
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- Coralogix
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