Senior Manager – Platform Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Oversee all facets of cloud infrastructure and corporate IT operations.

• Collaborate with teams in security, engineering, data, customer success, and leadership.

• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure cloud solutions for the data platform and services ecosystem.

• Develop infrastructure-as-code primarily using Terraform and advocate for best practices in automation and configuration management.

• Enhance investment in observability to better serve products and customers.

• Create and implement disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

• Scale data and SaaS services while ensuring reliability and performance.

• Work with leadership and team leads to align technical strategies with business objectives.

• Foster an agile DevOps culture, implement effective CI/CD practices, and enhance the developer experience.

• Establish and improve best practices, tools, and processes for infrastructure and IT.

• Function as a hands-on leader, addressing technical challenges directly.

• Mentor and guide team members.

• Report directly to the CTO.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible experience in an Infrastructure environment.

• At least 5 years of experience leading and developing cloud infrastructure and IT operations in a SaaS and/or data product environment.

• Experience in an Azure environment is preferred.

• A background of 2 or more years working with early-stage startups.

• Comfort with ambiguity and risk management.

• Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly Terraform.

• Comprehensive understanding of architectures that support data platforms and service-oriented systems.

• Capacity to make decisions swiftly and invest appropriately without over-engineering or under-engineering solutions.

• Ability to maintain security and compliance standards while promoting business productivity.

• Proven record of mentoring and developing technical team members.

• Experience managing Corporate IT teams.

• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to collaborate across diverse teams and stakeholders.

• Comfortable providing direct support to customers.

• Must have authorization to work indefinitely in the US on a full-time basis for any employer.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Life insurance.

• AD&D insurance.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Short-term disability.

• Long-term disability.

• 16 days of Paid Time Off (PTO).

• 8 paid holidays.

• Fully paid holiday closure.

• Parental and family medical leave.

• 401k plan.

• Stock options.

• Annual bonuses.

• Salary increases based on merit.