Manager, Software Development Engineering (Platform Engineering - SRE)

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About the Team

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Engineering manager to join our growing Platform Engineering team. You will play a critical role in building out a world-class platform engineering team who owns development, scaling, and maintaining of our Kubernetes-based platform, enabling our engineering organization to deliver products quickly and reliably. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, own mission critical projects, and contribute to the future foundation of our infrastructure. This role requires a strong technical leader with proven managerial skills, capable of guiding a high-performing Platform team.
This role involves collaborating with teams across multiple locations and time zones. You will need to be excellent at communicating effectively and building strong relationships with colleagues in diverse locations.

About the Role

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a reliable and customer-focused Platform Engineering team

• Drive a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning

• Manage team workload, set clear priorities, and ensure clear and consistent communication across distributed teams

• Partner with engineering, product, and other infrastructure teams to align DevOps practices with organizational goals

• Hire dedicated and experienced engineers with the right skills and mindset to be successful

• Own and improve release management processes to support rapid, safe, and reliable deployments

• Oversee incident management, including on-call staffing, rapid triage, and blameless root cause analysis

• Champion a team focus on automation, documentation, and use of AI tooling

• Stay up to date on Platform Engineering trends and best practices

• Support the professional development of every team member

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with at least 2+ years in people management

• 7+ years experience as part of DevOps, SRE, or Platform engineering teams

• Strong leadership and management skills including experience with hiring, performance management and career development

Other Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills with a track record of cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder alignment.

• Deep understanding of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS), including architecture, cost optimization, and security best practices.

• Experience running and maintaining production systems on public cloud platforms

• Experience with maintaining a responsive and focused on-call rotation

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously

• Clear passion for focusing on customer satisfaction and operational excellence

• Familiarity with modern monitoring and logging tools, like Prometheus and Grafana

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g. Terraform)

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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