[Hiring] Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure @Careers at Tide

Role Description

Tide is hiring for a proven Engineering Manager to lead the team. As the successful candidate you will:

• Lead: Hire, coach, and set clear goals for a team of engineers.
• Plan: Develop a roadmap for architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and capacity for our infrastructure, databases, and Kubernetes clusters.
• Protect: Make sure our platforms meet their targets for availability and security.
• Empower: Reduce the time that product engineers need to deploy and run services on the platform.
• Control cost: Help product engineering teams make cost-efficient choices for services that run on our platform.
• Collaborate: Share team context and build cross-team relationships.
• Balance priorities: Weigh technical decisions against team and company goals.
• Measure: Track team productivity with metrics such as DORA and SPACE, and drive measurable improvement.

Qualifications

• 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

Requirements

• Platform engineering experience that abstracts Kubernetes complexity into a stable internal product
• Experience creating and maintaining Kubernetes operators

Benefits

• The gross annual salary for this position ranges from €75,200 to €105,750 but we are also open to discussing the salary further, taking into account your expertise and contributions.
• Remote first
• 25 days of paid annual leave
• 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities
• Private Health Insurance
• Mental Health Support Platform
• FitPass
• Family and friendly leave (according to statutory)
• Personal L&D budget
• Share Options

Company Description

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 available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs
• Over 2 million members globally and rapidly growing
• Over $300 million raised in funding
• 3,000 Tideans globally
• Recognised with Great Place to Work certification three years in a row, and among India’s Top 50 Best Workplaces in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance in 2026
• We have offices in Central London, with a member support and technology centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, technology centres in Serbia, Romania, Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg