Engineering Manager – Platform

Doctronic

. Lead and grow a team of platform engineers through goals, feedback, coaching, and high standards .

Posted 9/15/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • United StatesSeniorLead💰 $200,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong leadership in managing platform engineering teams, with a focus on improving reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency. Proficient in guiding technical decisions and contributing to production code and automation within an AI-native engineering environment.

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Team LeadershipPlatform EngineeringAWS InfrastructureCI/CD ImprovementPython Automation

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Hard Skills

Platform EngineeringInfrastructure ManagementProduction Code ContributionAutomationCI/CDObservabilityService TemplatesPythonShell ScriptingAI Infrastructure

Soft Skills

CoachingFeedbackClear CommunicationJudgmentPrioritization

Tools & Technologies

AWSECSECRTerraformGitHub ActionsCloudWatchRDSDocumentDBRedisS3

Industry Keywords

Developer ProductivityHigh-Traffic ApplicationsDisaster RecoveryRegulated Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSPythonRedisTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and grow a team of platform engineers through goals, feedback, coaching, and high standards
Set priorities with application, AI, data, security, and product teams
Improve reliability, scalability, and operation of production services
Reduce the time and effort required to build, test, deploy, and operate software
Guide technical decisions and contribute directly to platform code, infrastructure, and automation
Build an AI-native engineering environment with agent-ready repositories, clear interfaces, automated validation, and reusable workflows
Improve how agent work is scoped, supplied with context, verified, and converted into reusable automation
Track delivery speed, CI performance, reliability, self-service adoption, and operational load
Lead incident response and ensure follow-up work produces durable improvements
Hire strong engineers and build a team that can take on broader scope as Doctronic grows

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience managing and developing platform, infrastructure, or developer productivity engineers
Strong technical background and current ability to contribute production code, infrastructure, and automation
Judgment to evaluate architecture, reliability, security, cost, and delivery tradeoffs
Record of turning ambiguous company needs into clear priorities and shipped improvements
Experience improving developer environments, CI/CD, observability, service templates, or internal engineering tools
Daily experience using coding agents and clear judgment about their appropriate use
Evidence of improving engineering throughput without lowering quality
Experience hiring, coaching, giving direct feedback, and helping engineers grow
Clear communication across engineering and company leadership
Eight or more years of engineering experience, including two or more years managing engineers (typical candidate profile)
AWS infrastructure experience, including ECS, ECR, Terraform, Terragrunt, GitHub Actions, CloudWatch, RDS, DocumentDB, Redis, S3, CloudFront, Application Load Balancers, IAM, and Secrets Manager
Python or shell automation experience
Experience with AI infrastructure, regulated systems, disaster recovery, or high-traffic applications is useful but not required

Benefits

Comp & perks

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