Staff Platform Engineer

Do you know

askblue ? We were born in 2013, and we provide services in the field of information technology. We are looking for

Staff Platform Engineer

to join our company, in one of our projects, in the the

regulatory intelligence sector , located in

Lisbon .

Staff Platform Engineer professionals are highly specialized IT professionals who help organizations define, build, and evolve internal developer platforms that improve the way engineering teams deliver software. They combine strong engineering depth with a platform-as-product mindset, helping teams move faster, more safely, and with less friction.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role with significant scope. The successful candidate will help define the direction of the internal developer platform, guide the adoption of golden paths, improve developer experience, and support the platform engineering team in growing ownership across platform capabilities, automation, observability, and developer enablement. They may also be called upon to provide guidance on how to best use specific tools, technologies, and operating models to improve platform adoption, reliability, and engineering productivity.

Tasks:

Platform Vision and Roadmap: Define and evolve the vision for the internal developer platform, including what capabilities should be built, adopted, standardized, or intentionally left out of scope. Work with engineering leadership and the platform engineering team to translate this direction into a clear roadmap, practical priorities, and measurable outcomes.

Internal Developer Platform: Lead the design and evolution of internal developer platform capabilities that improve how engineering teams build, deploy, operate, and understand their services. Support the adoption of platform tools such as Backstage, Humanitec, Port, or equivalent approaches where relevant.

Golden Paths and Developer Workflows: Define reusable service templates, opinionated defaults, paved roads, and development workflows that help engineering teams deliver services consistently. Decide where standardization is required and where flexibility is appropriate, while enabling the platform engineering team to implement and improve these patterns over time.

Developer Experience: Make developer experience a first-class concern across the platform. Work with engineers to identify developer pain points, improve onboarding flows, documentation, APIs, CLIs, templates, internal tooling, and support models.

Developer Experience Measurement: Establish mechanisms to measure platform success through developer outcomes, adoption, reliability, and reduced friction. Use approaches such as DORA metrics, the SPACE framework, internal developer feedback, developer interviews, and platform adoption metrics to guide prioritization.

Platform API and Operating Model: Define the contract the platform exposes to product engineering teams, including platform abstractions, service expectations, escalation paths, support boundaries, and the split of responsibility between platform teams and service teams.

Observability and Reliability Enablement: Bring strong fluency in observability and reliability practices so the platform can provide clear visibility, useful service health signals, and better operational standards. Partner with the platform engineering team and product engineering teams to improve telemetry quality, dashboards, operational readiness, and service expectations.

Mentorship and Enablement: Mentor platform engineers and help develop their platform-thinking depth alongside their technical implementation skills. Create opportunities for engineers in the team to grow ownership in areas such as developer experience, golden paths, automation, observability, platform adoption, and developer enablement.

Engineering-wide Influence: Partner with engineering leadership, product engineering, security, and operations teams on broader engineering improvements where the platform can reduce friction, improve consistency, and increase delivery confidence.

Stay updated: Stay current with emerging technologies and trends in platform engineering, internal developer platforms, developer experience, cloud-native tooling, DevOps, observability, and infrastructure automation.

Requirements:

A proven track record of designing, building, and evolving platform capabilities used by engineering teams in production environments.

Strong platform-as-product mindset, with experience treating developers as internal customers through feedback loops, roadmap discipline, service expectations, and measured outcomes.

Proven experience with internal developer platform concepts and tools such as Backstage, Humanitec, Port, or equivalent platform approaches.

Experience designing golden paths, including reusable service templates, standardized workflows, opinionated defaults, documentation, a