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Senior Manager, Data Platform Engineering - Kubernetes - Distributed Systems

San Diego, CALIFORNIA, us💼 Full-time💰 $181,200–$181,200🗓 2026-09-04 → 2026-09-26

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

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