Platform Engineering Manager - Platform Shared Services
Core
Lead a team of 5–8 engineers building and running high-blast-radius shared technical services (Identity & Access Management and Messaging) for an internal engineering organization.
Role type
Senior Platform Engineering Manager (IC with people leadership)
Builds
Internal platform services for authentication (IAM) and transactional email/messaging (GDPR-compliant consent)
Domain
Scientific publishing / Enterprise Platform Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering team management, backend platform delivery, distributed systems architecture, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, service reliability (SLAs/SLOs), budget planning, cross-functional stakeholder management
Preferred skills
OAuth 2.0/OIDC/JWT, event-driven systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ), Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, .NET/C#, GDPR compliance, Spec-Driven Development
Technologies
Ory Hydra, Ory Keto, Azure APIM, SendGrid, Mailgun, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, New Relic, Grafana, AKS, Cursor, MCP
Responsibilities
Oversee daily operations and resource allocation for the IAM and Messaging portfolio; translate roadmap into actionable engineering plans; guide technical direction and review architecture proposals; manage team performance and career growth; ensure reliability and incident management; drive process improvements for delivery efficiency; represent the team cross-functionally to manage risks and alignment.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people leadership
