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.

• Recruit new talent, establish expectations, provide constructive feedback and career growth opportunities, and oversee performance management.

• Take ownership of results across API gateways, API standards, shared platform services, deployment and infrastructure methodologies, continuous integration and testing, developer experience, disaster recovery, and observability.

• Approach engineering teams as platform customers, measuring delivery speed and platform adoption.

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

• Direct cross-team migrations, deprecations, and contract modifications.

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

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

• Streamline support processes and minimize operational toil.

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

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

• Draft requests for comments (RFCs) and build consensus across organizations before implementing significant changes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software engineering.

• More than 3 years of experience managing software engineers.

• Proven track record in hiring, developing, and retaining top talent.

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

• Proven ability to drive adoption and manage cross-organizational migrations through influence and the use of tools.

• Experience leading distributed global teams effectively.

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

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

• Proficiency in infrastructure as code using Terraform and Helm.

• Familiarity with progressive delivery methods using Argo Rollouts or similar tools.

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

• Understanding of OpenAPI-driven contracts and API gateways.

• Knowledge of authentication mechanisms, RBAC, rate limiting, versioning, and deprecation strategies.

• Proven history of breaking down monolithic applications into independently deployable services.

• Technical credibility in architecture and incident response.

• Hands-on experience with code and design reviews, providing guidance through feedback.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment.

• Employer contributions to healthcare costs.

• Stock options available for every new team member.

• Flexible time off policy in the US.

• Generous time off entitlements for employees in other countries.

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

• Opportunities to connect with colleagues at company-wide offsite events.