Job description
Engineering Manager - Cloud & SRE
Company Overview
Taxfix is Europe’s leading financial platform for digital tax solutions, with over 8 million tax returns submitted and more than 4.5 billion euros in refunds facilitated for our customers. Taxfix’s mission is to empower people to take control of their finances and fix finance for all. Headquartered in Berlin, Taxfix operates in Germany, Spain, and the UK, and employs over 400 professionals from more than 50 nationalities.
Job Summary
As an Engineering Manager for Cloud & SRE, you will lead and grow a high-performance team of cloud/SRE engineers, champion AI adoption, own delivery and reliability metrics, and shape the platform strategy for the Taxfix group.
Key Responsibilities
- Hire, coach, and develop cloud/SRE engineers through meaningful 1:1s, goal setting, and performance management.
- Build a high-performance team culture rooted in psychological safety, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Champion AI adoption within the team and evaluate team capacity and resource needs.
- Own the team's outcomes against OKRs, ensuring rigorous deployment pipelines, production readiness, and incident management.
- Drive SLO adherence and operational excellence across production infrastructure.
- Partner with Technical Leadership and Architecture to align infrastructure work with the technology strategy.
- Support AI/ML platform needs, including agent observability and AI development lifecycle tooling.
- Bridge the team with stakeholders in Product Engineering, AI Engineering, Security, Data, and Architecture.
Requirements / Qualifications
- 3+ years leading an engineering team (hiring, coaching, performance management, career development).
- Strong technical background in cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure transferable).
- Familiarity with Kubernetes in production, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar).
- Active user of AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, or similar).
- Exposure to AI/ML supporting infrastructure such as agent observability, model serving, or ML pipeline operations.
- Track record of driving team outcomes using metrics, OKRs, or KPIs.
- Effective communicator across engineering, product, and leadership audiences.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with platform consolidation, multi-cloud environments, or infrastructure migrations.
- SRE practices: SLOs, incident management, on-call, observability.
- GCP Landing Zones, GitOps (ArgoCD/Kargo), or service mesh.
- Cloud cost optimization experience.
- Experience supporting AI/ML workloads at scale (GPU scheduling, model deployment infrastructure, vector databases).
- Background managing platform/infrastructure teams.
Location
Berlin, Berlin, Germany (Hybrid)
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Holistic well-being with free mental health coaching sessions and yoga.
- A monthly allowance to spend on an extensive range of services.
- Employee stock options for all employees.
- 30 annual vacation days and flexible working hours.
- Work from abroad for up to six weeks every year.
- Free tax declaration filing through the Taxfix app.
Equal Opportunity Statement
At Taxfix, we believe that incredible things happen when you have a wealth of perspectives and experiences. We're proudly committed to equal employment and development opportunities no matter your gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation, colour, disability, or place of origin.
