Software Development Manager, Platform Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and facilitate the development of a high-performing Platform/DevOps engineering team.

• Promote an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe team environment.

• Take ownership of delivery for one or more business applications, including executing roadmaps, planning releases, managing risks, and ensuring operational excellence.

• Establish and enhance Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), on-call practices, incident response workflows, and postmortem culture.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Security, and Engineering teams to align priorities and effectively communicate progress.

• Manage and advance Kubernetes/EKS environments across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) and regions.

• Champion GitOps and CI/CD best practices utilizing tools such as Argo CD, Flux, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy.

• Create paved roads, templates, and reusable developer workflows to enhance engineering productivity and minimize complexity.

• Facilitate infrastructure automation and infrastructure-as-code methodologies using Terraform and AWS CDK.

• Enhance observability and operational visibility through logs, metrics, tracing, and synthetic monitoring.

• Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to implement secure-by-default infrastructure practices.

• Assist in optimizing cloud cost efficiency, scalability, reliability, and performance within AWS and Kubernetes ecosystems.

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, resilience engineering, and operational ownership.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in people leadership, managing and developing engineering teams.

• At least 7 years of engineering experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or related fields.

• Proven experience in delivering and operating business-critical applications within AWS environments.

• Extensive knowledge of AWS services, including EKS, EC2, VPC networking, S3, RDS/DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, and CloudWatch.

• Expertise in Kubernetes operations, Helm, autoscaling, and infrastructure security practices.

• Experience in constructing CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.

• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles utilizing Terraform and/or AWS CDK.

• Proficient in programming languages such as Python, Java, TypeScript, or Node.js.

• Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including incident management, SLIs/SLOs, and operational excellence.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to partner with stakeholders.

• Experience in building or managing Internal Developer Platforms and self-service engineering workflows.

• Knowledge of service meshes, policy engines, secrets management, and platform governance.

• Experience in supporting multi-region architectures and resilience engineering initiatives.

• Understanding of observability platforms, distributed tracing, and synthetic monitoring strategies.

• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as Kafka, Kinesis, SNS, or SQS.

• Familiarity with SOX, SOC2, compliance frameworks, and FinOps practices.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health benefits.

• Financial benefits.

• Time away.

• Everyday wellness benefits.

• Annual cash bonuses.

• Stock grants.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• In-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification may be provided.