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.