Team Engineering Lead - K8s Operator

Your role

at Dynatrace Lead a team of ~6 software engineers building Kubernetes Operators in Go, responsible for automating how the Dynatrace platform is deployed and operated across diverse infrastructure environments. Drive execution by setting clear goals, managing dependencies, removing blockers, and ensuring predictable delivery of the team's topics.

Mentor and grow your engineers. Drive career development, promotions, and compensation planning for your team. Drive hiring for open roles and team scaling. What will help you succeed Several years of hands-on software engineering experience, ideally in the Kubernetes or cloud-native space (Go is an advantage). A strong delivery mindset.

You follow through, resolve ambiguity, and keep things moving. Experience leading or mentoring engineers, with a genuine interest in people development. Clear, direct communication — with your team, with peers, and with leadership. Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tooling, and a drive to embed AI-First practices into your team's workflows.

Why you will love being a Dynatracer Dynatrace is a leader in unified observability and security. We provide a culture of excellence with competitive compensation packages designed to recognize and reward performance. Our employees work with the largest cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud, and other leading partners worldwide to create strategic alliances.

You'll get to work at the forefront of innovation with Dynatrace Intelligence—the industry's first agentic operations system. Bringing together deterministic and agentic AI, it helps teams understand what's happening, why it matters, and what to do next— automatically. Over 50% of the Fortune 100 companies are current customers of Dynatrace.

Additional Information This role offers the flexibility of hybrid work from our office in Lucerne; please note that current residency and physical presence in Switzerland are required.