CareerPlan

Sr Engineering Manager, API Platform

Office - Santa Clara, USAFull-time$212k–$265k2026-10-29 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Lead the vision and roadmap for the API Platform and developer tooling, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, technical scalability, and industry best practices.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager, API Platform

Builds

Scalable, secure, and high-performing platforms and systems to empower engineering teams

Domain

Cloud Security / API Infrastructure

Required skills

Engineering leadership, API design and governance, distributed systems architecture, multi-language ecosystem management (Java, Go, JavaScript), containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker), cloud service experience (AWS, GCP, Azure), API-first design principles (OpenAPI/Swagger, REST, JSON, Authn/z)

Preferred skills

AI tools integration in SDLC, Cloud Security and Networking domain expertise, workflow automation and developer productivity tools, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code

Technologies

Java, Go, Python, gRPC, Temporal, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenAPI, Swagger, REST, JSON

Responsibilities

Lead the vision and roadmap for the API Platform and developer tooling; Oversee the standardization, design, and governance of APIs; Direct the architecture and standards for product and provisioning APIs; Manage and coach a team of Senior Staff Engineers and highly skilled technical contributors; Ensure the delivery of microservices, workflow workers, and SDKs optimized for reliability, availability, and safe retry semantics; Work closely with Product Management and Security to build scalable and secure solutions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities