Platform Engineer

At adidas, every day is a chance to flip the script. An invitation to take everything we know and re-invent it. Do it better. Never settling for good enough.

Every day we get up, invent, adapt, improvise, find new ways to collaborate, and do the unexpected. We’re creators, makers and doers. Helping athletes make a difference, not just in their games, but in their lives and in their world.

It’s an obsession.

We’ve been doing this for more than 75 years. With an unmatched history and tradition of creating iconic products, consumer connections and experiences, we’ve been defining sport culture since the beginning.

And we’re never done.

Come be a part of shaping the future together with us.

IT STARTS WITH YOU

PLATFORM ENGINEER

PURPOSE:

Platform Engineering designs, builds and operates the platforms our application teams rely on. Our goal is to unlock the potential of those teams so they spend more time on business value — increasing velocity and reducing time to market — while the enterprise scales on shared, secure, well-engineered platforms and services. All the adidas applications operate on top of platform engineering services, wich are completely involved within the SDLC. Continuious integration and continous deployment, testing, observability, synch and asynch communications, AI, Kubernetes & AWS are examples of platforms enabled by this team.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

As a Platform Engineer you are a hands-on technical expert who takes end-to-end ownership of capabilities within the platform. You deliver high-quality increments autonomously, propose and implement improvements that move availability, reliability, latency and cost in the right direction, and you lift the people around you.

• Take end-to-end ownership of epics and initiatives within the platform — from understanding requirements through solution design, implementation and operation.
• Design, code, test, document and refactor complex software, choosing the right approach and applying engineering standards and tools.
• Propose, own and implement technical improvements (e.g. monitoring, system stability, reliability, operability) balancing impact and cost.
• Build and operate the platform reliably: define and track SLAs/SLOs, reduce incidents and toil, and automate operational work.
• Lead code reviews for peers and contribute to the platform’s technical roadmap, aligned with the domain strategy and in close collaboration with the platform owner.
• Coordinate the day-to-day delivery of complex, multi-faceted work with the relevant stakeholders across teams.
• Act as an active mentor for equal- or lower-grade colleagues, onboard new team members, and contribute to communities of practice.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

MUST-HAVE:

• College/university degree in IT, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• ~5 years of IT experience across the full product development lifecycle, including building and operating services in production.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals: clean code, testing, code review, and at least one of Go, TypeScript/Node.js or Java/Spring Boot.
• Cloud-native foundations: containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD, and a major cloud provider (AWS preferred).
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), GitHub Actions, Helm, and DORA-metrics awareness.
• Observability and operability mindset: metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and incident response.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; proficient English (verbal and written,).
• DevOps mindset with ownership from development and testing through to deployment and operation.

Platform specialisation — pick the focus for this opening 

• Demostrated experience in one of these services:If you have experience in one of these services:

Platform 

Deeper skills we’d expect 

CICD 

GitHub Actions / Jenkins pipeline design, build optimisation, release strategies (canary, blue/green), artifact & dependency management. 

Kubernetes 

Kubernetes operations, Helm, autoscaling (HPA/VPA), workload isolation, resource governance, cluster security, multi-AZ resilience. 

Observability 

Metrics/logs/traces pipelines, Prometheus/Grafana/Instana, OpenTelemetry, SLO/SLI tooling, alerting & cardinality management. 

Testing / QA 

Test strategy & automation, contract testing, quality gates in CI/CD, performance & chaos testing across Go/TS/Java. 

Machine Learning 

ML platform tooling, model lifecycle, feature stores, training/serving infra, MLOps pipelines, Agents, MCP… 

APIs 

API design (REST/gRPC/GraphQL/AsyncAPI), API gateway, auth (OAuth/OIDC/mTLS), contracts, versioning, developer experience. 

Streaming 

Kafka, SQS, event-driven architecture, consumer-lag management, throughput & backpressure, exactly-once semantics. 

Cloud 

AWS landing zones, networking, IAM/IRSA, cost optimisation, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), HA design. 

AI Engineering 

Agent runtimes, MCP integration, LLM tooling, AI-assisted developer tooling, evaluation & guardrails. 

MINDSET & WAYS OF WORKING

We hire for how you work as much as what you know. We look for:

• Ownership — proactive, takes responsibility, follows through, and learns from failure.
• Courage — speaks up on opportunities and steps up on needs; constructively challenges the status quo.
• Innovation — curious, tests and learns, brings ideas and market trends to the team.
• Team play, integrity and respect — collaborates, holds high standards, and communicates inclusively.
• A growth mindset focused on continuous learning and adaptability to change.

WHAT IF I DON’T CHECK ALL THE BOXES?

It’s ok if some of the technology or terminology mentioned here are new for you. We’ll happily teach you.At adidas, we’re keen to increase our team’s diversity of backgrounds and skills, and we’re more interested in the work you will produce than that work you’ve already produced in the past. If you’d love to work with us, then we’d love to hear from you.

WHAT WE OFFER: 

• You will be part of a company where digital transformation, innovation and continuous improvement are core principles of our culture.
• You will join a team of talented and passionate quality engineers, with a lot of opportunities to grow and reach your expectations.
• You will be part of a highly engaged, multinational with international career opportunities.
• Individual development, training and a tech community.
• Hybrid Work Setup: enjoy the advantages of a flexible remote work environment (40% Weekly within Spain) combined with the amazing onsite facilities and culture.
• Competitive salary, benefits and valuable discounts on adidas products. 

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