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Senior Manager, Platform Engineering
Location
United States
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Job Description
Role Description
This role offers the opportunity to lead and scale multiple platform engineering teams responsible for building, maintaining, and optimizing the systems that power enterprise-grade digital products. As Senior Manager, Platform Engineering, you will shape the technical strategy, oversee full-stack development, and ensure that distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native platforms meet high standards of performance, reliability, and security. You will collaborate closely with product, architecture, and cross-functional teams to define multi-year roadmaps, implement observability practices, and mentor engineers to deliver scalable solutions. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with team management, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and operational rigor. Your work will directly impact the digital experience of end-users while influencing the growth and efficiency of the platform engineering organization.
- Lead and mentor multiple platform engineering teams, providing technical direction across the full software development lifecycle.
- Define multi-year technology strategy, roadmaps, and backlogs to support scalable, distributed platforms.
- Guide the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of cloud-native, microservices-based systems.
- Champion observability, reliability, performance tuning, and continuous improvement in all platform systems.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and leadership to prioritize initiatives, allocate resources, and ensure alignment with business objectives.
- Review code, designs, and architecture to maintain engineering standards and best practices.
- Oversee platform support operations, including incident management, root cause analysis, and operational effectiveness.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in full-stack development and platform engineering in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Proven track record managing teams of 10+ engineers in cloud-first, distributed system architectures.
- Deep expertise in programming languages such as C++, C#, Java, Golang, and proficiency in at least two languages.
- Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed system design.
- Hands-on experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, domain-driven design, caching strategies, load balancers, and API-first development.
- Extensive knowledge of observability, SLO/SLA metrics, operational monitoring, and system reliability best practices.
- Experience with NoSQL databases, event systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, EventBridge), and headless solutions.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with a proactive and adaptable mindset.
- Strong ability to mentor and develop technical talent, fostering high-performing engineering teams.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary with performance-based incentives.
- Flexible paid time off and generous PTO accrual plans.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Retirement plan options with company matching contributions.
- Home office setup allowance and remote work flexibility.
- Opportunities for professional growth, mentorship, and leadership development.
- Inclusive and collaborative culture with emphasis on work-life balance and wellbeing.
Company Description
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in full-stack development and platform engineering in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Proven track record managing teams of 10+ engineers in cloud-first, distributed system architectures.
- Deep expertise in programming languages such as C++, C#, Java, Golang, and proficiency in at least two languages.
- Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed system design.
- Hands-on experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, domain-driven design, caching strategies, load balancers, and API-first development.
- Extensive knowledge of observability, SLO/SLA metrics, operational monitoring, and system reliability best practices.
- Experience with NoSQL databases, event systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, EventBridge), and headless solutions.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with a proactive and adaptable mindset.
- Strong ability to mentor and develop technical talent, fostering high-performing engineering teams.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary with performance-based incentives.
- Flexible paid time off and generous PTO accrual plans.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Retirement plan options with company matching contributions.
- Home office setup allowance and remote work flexibility.
- Opportunities for professional growth, mentorship, and leadership development.
- Inclusive and collaborative culture with emphasis on work-life balance and wellbeing.
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