Platform Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the two Infrastructure teams responsible for Delivery (CI/CD, GitOps, and the developer platform) and Compute (Kubernetes, EC2).

• Conduct 1:1 meetings, establish clear expectations, provide honest feedback, and manage performance and career growth.

• Manage coordination tasks to allow staff engineers to concentrate on architecture, technical collaboration, and challenging technical issues.

• Collaborate with other Platform Engineering Managers throughout the platform domain.

• Promote operational efficiency for the platform.

• Finalize legacy platform retirement and oversee migrations across R&D domains.

• Ensure risks are transparent to leadership and that post-migration cleanup has designated owners.

• Operate the EKS fleet reliably, including upgrades, capacity tasks, and partner notifications.

• Treat engineers as customers through defaults, templates, documentation, and AI-enhanced tools.

• Lead incident response and learning initiatives for delivery and compute.

• Collaborate with Security on PCI DSS controls for payment workloads.

• Develop roadmaps, implement platform initiatives, decrease interrupt load, and foster engineer development.

⛳️ Requirements

• 3+ years of experience managing engineers in platform, infrastructure, or developer-productivity teams.

• Proven experience leading senior and staff-level engineers.

• Strong technical judgment in Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), along with CI/CD and GitOps delivery.

• Demonstrated success in delivering cross-team platform migrations or adoption initiatives, managing dependencies across multiple teams, and communicating risks to leadership.

• Experience in owning production reliability, including on-call health, incident response, and systematic follow-through.

• Clear and direct communication with engineers, peer leaders, and non-technical stakeholders.

• Helpful, but not required: hands-on experience with Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Karpenter, Kyverno, or Backstage.

• Helpful, but not required: experience in building internal developer platforms with a product-focused approach, including golden paths, self-service options, and developer experience metrics.

• Helpful, but not required: experience in a PCI DSS or similarly regulated environment.

• Helpful, but not required: experience using AI tools in developer workflows or platform operations.

• Helpful, but not required: experience leading a team distributed across U.S. and European time zones, or a clear plan for effective management.

• For U.S.-based roles, work authorization in the U.S. is mandatory.

• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company stock plan.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.

• 401k with company match.

• RSUs.

• Paid vacation.

• 10 company holidays.

• Sick time.

• Volunteer time off.

• Employee Resource Groups to foster community and inclusion at work.

• Monthly cell phone and internet stipend.

• Tuition reimbursement for up to $2,000 per calendar year to support your professional development.