Platform Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of platform engineers, overseeing hiring, onboarding, performance management, career growth, and daily prioritization.

• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, and psychological safety.

• Remain actively involved as a player-coach, contributing to architectural decisions, infrastructure-as-code, code reviews, and addressing challenging infrastructure issues.

• Establish engineering patterns and best practices for the team and the wider engineering organization.

• Contribute to the platform roadmap and translate organizational strategies into actionable plans for the team.

• Balance considerations of reliability, cost, security, and developer experience; make decisions on build-vs-buy and tooling; manage team capacity and commitments.

• Guide the deployment and evolution of cloud solutions, with a focus on AWS, Infrastructure as Code, and automation.

• Assess emerging technologies and recommend their adoption when they enhance the platform.

• Facilitate observability, automation, and integration points for AIOps in collaboration with Platform Operations.

• Ensure systems meet the SLIs and SLOs set by Platform Operations; support incident response and engage in blameless post-mortems.

• Collaborate with product, security, Platform Operations, and engineering teams to align platform priorities with business objectives.

• Communicate technical strategies and trade-offs effectively to technical teams and stakeholders.

• Keep the team informed about tools, technologies, and best practices, including AI/ML and AIOps.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, including at least 2 years in a leadership or mentoring role (platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE), with responsibilities in hiring, mentoring, and performance management.

• Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration at scale, including ArgoCD, Helm, and cluster lifecycle management.

• Expert-level proficiency in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code frameworks; experience in defining reusable IaC patterns and modules, as well as managing CI/CD and GitOps workflows.

• In-depth expertise in AWS (networking, compute, storage, security) and containerization in cloud-native environments.

• Familiarity with observability, developer-platform (IDP) patterns, and security/IAM principles.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of conveying complex technical concepts and risks to diverse audiences.

• Must be available for on-call escalation coverage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first work environment.

• Health, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability Insurance options available from day one.

• 401K plan with a match and immediate vesting.

• 17 company holidays, 2 floating holidays, plus a competitive paid time off policy.

• Internal advancement opportunities.