Senior Manager, Data Platform Engineering - Kubernetes - Distributed Systems
Core
Lead a team of 6–10 engineers to design, build, and operate core cloud-native platform services, ensuring reliability and scalability across hyperscaler, on-prem, and sovereign environments.
Role type
Senior Manager, Data Platform Engineering (Kubernetes & Distributed Systems)
Builds
Core platform services, distributed systems, and cloud-native infrastructure
Domain
Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Hyperscalers, Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Team leadership and hiring, end-to-end delivery management, SLO and operational review design, hyperscaler core primitives knowledge, Kubernetes and container orchestration, CI/CD and GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, AI integration in engineering workflows
Preferred skills
Player-coach technical review capability, architectural decision making, building high-trust engineering cultures
Technologies
Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, Containers, CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-code
Responsibilities
Lead and develop a team of software engineers, own end-to-end delivery and roadmap for team domain, ensure reliability and operability of services, partner with principal engineers and workload teams, review designs and code as a player-coach, communicate status and risks to leadership
Seniority
Senior Manager, hands-on IC leadership