Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

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. Lead, build, and grow a high-performing platform engineering team of ten engineers .

Posted 10/28/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • United StatesSenior💰 $250,000 - $270,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading platform engineering teams, setting technical strategy, and driving alignment across product, design, and executive stakeholders. Proficient in managing performance, developing talent, and ensuring operational health of platform services.

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10+ Years Software Engineering Experience3+ Years Managing EngineersExperience With KubernetesFluency With AWSStrong Product Instincts

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Hard Skills

Platform Architecture StrategyService Design StandardsData ModelingPerformance ManagementTechnical Strategy DevelopmentIncident ResponseDeployment ToolingApplication ConsistencyCross-Team Initiative LeadershipProduct-Facing Platform Development

Soft Skills

Excellent Written CommunicationExcellent Verbal CommunicationCoaching SkillsJudgment on Build Decisions

Tools & Technologies

Cloud PlatformsKubernetesDistributed Systems

Industry Keywords

SaaSEnterprise Single-TenantGovernment-CloudInternal Developer Tooling

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, build, and grow a high-performing platform engineering team of ten engineers
Hire, onboard, coach, manage performance, and develop team careers
Set the platform vision and roadmap
Prioritize investments across core services, shared primitives, and internal developer tooling
Own architecture strategy across SaaS, enterprise single-tenant, and government-cloud environments
Partner with Staff engineers and tech leads on key architecture decisions
Collaborate with product, design, and AI engineering leaders to translate customer needs into platform investments
Make build versus product-team ownership versus buy tradeoffs
Drive cross-team initiatives improving product velocity, system reliability, and application consistency
Establish and drive adoption of standards for service design, data modeling, and platform integration
Oversee the internal developer platform, deployment tooling, and agentic engineering capabilities
Own operational health, including reliability targets, incident response, on-call, and delivery predictability
Define team success metrics and communicate progress and tradeoffs to executive leadership
Report to the Senior Director of Platform Engineering

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of software engineering experience
3+ years managing engineers, ideally including managers or multiple teams
Significant experience building product-facing platforms or foundational application services
Technical depth to review designs, challenge tradeoffs, and earn the respect of Staff-level engineers
Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers
Experience with coaching and performance management
Strong product instincts and history of shipping platform capabilities that unlocked meaningful customer outcomes
Experience setting technical strategy and roadmap across multiple teams
Experience driving alignment with product, design, and executive stakeholders
Fluency with modern cloud platforms; AWS preferred
Experience with Kubernetes and distributed systems
Excellent judgment on platform build, delegation, and purchasing decisions
Excellent written and verbal communication
Remote candidates must be based in the United States

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity
Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
Flexible time off and work schedules
Technology reimbursements
401(k) plan
Twice-yearly in-person offsites across the U.S.
Wellness benefits starting on your first day