Engineering Manager – Platform

📋 Description

• We are seeking an Engineering Manager to oversee our Platform (Core Services) team, responsible for the essential services and libraries utilized by our product engineering teams across the Rula ecosystem.

• You will guide a team of skilled platform engineers in developing and sustaining highly adaptable, dependable, and scalable services and tools to enhance the quality and speed of our product development.

• Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager, you will outline the team charter, define ownership parameters, and champion the mission of delivering shared libraries and services.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in building and maintaining backend platform infrastructure or shared services that cater to multiple product engineering teams.

• At least 3 years of experience managing a high-performing engineering team, focusing on personnel development, performance management, and creating high-trust environments.

• A demonstrated history of mentoring senior engineers in technical areas such as distributed systems, microservices architecture, or cloud-native infrastructure.

• Strong familiarity with AWS (particularly IAM, VPC, and EKS) to guarantee the scalability and security of core libraries.

• Proven experience in maintaining shared tools and services with an emphasis on reliability, including setting SLOs and managing high-availability systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% remote work environment: Flexible working hours to support a healthy work-life balance, enabling you to fulfill both professional and personal commitments (must reside in the United States; currently not hiring in Hawaii).

• Competitive compensation and benefits: Full transparency of pay ranges regardless of your location within the United States.

• Comprehensive health benefits: Including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and FSA/HSA options.

• Access to a 401(k) plan: Begin saving for your future.

• Generous time-off policies: Featuring 2 company-wide shutdown weeks annually for self-care (applicable to most employees).

• Paid parental leave: Available for all parents, including birthing, non-birthing, adopting, and fostering.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Support for your mental and physical well-being.

• New hire home office stipend: Equip your workspace for success.

• Quarterly department stipend: Engage in fun team-building activities or in-person gatherings.

• Wellness events and lunch & learns: Participate in a variety of engaging topics.

• Community and employee resource groups: Join groups that celebrate employee identities and lived experiences, fostering a sense of community and belonging for all.