Senior Platform Engineering Manager
Core
Lead Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers to deliver and improve internal platform capabilities enabling engineers and AI agents to build, deploy, and operate software safely and efficiently.
Role type
Senior Platform Engineering Manager (IC + Leadership)
Builds
Internal Developer Platform, self-service capabilities, automation, and secure-by-default workflows for engineers and AI agents.
Domain
Software Engineering / Platform Engineering / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Organizational leadership, team development, strategy execution, stakeholder management, platform architecture, distributed systems, technical trade-off evaluation, AI-assisted development understanding, operational maturity, workforce planning.
Preferred skills
Experience scaling internal developer platforms, driving adoption of platform-as-a-product principles, influencing technical direction at an organizational level.
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Kong Gateway/Mesh, GitOps (Akuity), Buildkite, Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Vault, Datadog, PagerDuty
Responsibilities
Lead and develop Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers; translate strategy into clear priorities and outcomes; shape roadmaps with Product and Engineering leadership; drive development and adoption of the Internal Developer Platform; enable self-service and automation for engineers and AI agents; manage priorities, dependencies, and trade-offs across teams; drive platform reliability using SLOs and observability; champion engineering standards (automation, code quality, security, IaC); build organizational capability through hiring and succession planning.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities