Engineering Manager – Control Plane Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop the Control Plane Platform team.

• Manage recruitment, establish expectations, offer feedback and career growth, and oversee performance.

• Take ownership of outcomes related to API gateways, API standards, shared platform services, deployment and infrastructure patterns, continuous integration and testing, developer experience, disaster recovery, and observability.

• Approach integrating engineering teams as platform customers and assess delivery speed and platform adoption.

• Provide architectural guidance and assist senior engineers in making informed technical decisions.

• Spearhead cross-functional migrations, deprecations, and contract adjustments across teams.

• Contribute to the design and coding for gateway routing, authentication/RBAC enforcement, specification-driven code generation, event delivery semantics, idempotency, and safe multi-region rollouts.

• Manage service level objectives (SLOs), reliability, on-call quality, and cost-effectiveness for Kubernetes-hosted, multi-tenant services across various cloud regions.

• Streamline support processes and minimize operational burdens.

• Develop self-service and auto-healing features, golden-path templates, generators, and documentation.

• Define the platform's vision, roadmap, and priorities that impact the business.

• Draft requests for comments (RFCs) and foster cross-organizational agreement prior to significant changes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software engineering.

• More than 3 years in a managerial role overseeing software engineers.

• Proven success in hiring, nurturing, and retaining high-quality talent.

• Experience leading a platform or infrastructure team that supports other engineering teams.

• Demonstrated ability to drive adoption and manage cross-organizational migrations through influence and tooling.

• Experience in leading distributed global teams.

• Ability to cultivate an inclusive and autonomous culture across different time zones.

• Proficiency in building scalable, highly available, and secure AWS cloud infrastructure, including EKS, SQS, DocumentDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, and Lambdas.

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code using Terraform and Helm.

• Experience with progressive delivery utilizing Argo Rollouts or similar technologies.

• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes, including shared-cluster hosting patterns for independently deployed applications.

• Understanding of OpenAPI-driven contracts and API gateways.

• Expertise in authentication, RBAC, rate limiting, versioning, and deprecation.

• Proven track record of breaking down monoliths into independently deployable services.

• Technical credibility in architecture and incident response.

• Hands-on experience reviewing code, diving into designs, and providing constructive feedback.

• Strong judgment in execution amidst ambiguity, parallel workstreams, risks, and long-term system health.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment.

• Employer contributions towards healthcare.

• Stock options available for every new team member.

• Flexible time off in the United States.

• Generous time off entitlement in other countries.

• USD$500 allowance for home office setup for remote employees.

• Opportunities to connect with colleagues during company-wide offsites.