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Manager, Embedded Platform Engineering

Charlotte, NCFull-time2026-10-09 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead a team of platform engineers to establish modern engineering practices, accelerate platform adoption, and improve developer experience for product teams building electric vehicles.

Role type

Manager, Embedded Platform Engineering

Builds

Shared platform capabilities, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native infrastructure, and self-service engineering tools for vehicle software teams.

Domain

Automotive / Electric Vehicles / Cloud-Native Engineering

Required skills

Team leadership, technical direction, platform strategy, developer experience optimization, cloud architecture, CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, stakeholder management

Preferred skills

Experience with AWS, Terraform, Crossplane, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Kargo, SLO/SLI definition, error budget management

Technologies

AWS, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Kargo, Terraform, Crossplane, Docker, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Lead and coach a team of platform engineers; Partner with product teams to adopt shared platform capabilities; Drive adoption of modern CI/CD and GitOps practices; Establish reliability practices including SLOs and error budgets; Engage with engineering leaders to define platform strategy and operating models.

Seniority

Manager, hands-on technical leadership