Engineering Manager - Platform

Legion Intelligence • San Francisco, CA

5h • $200,000 - $260,000

About The Position

As an Engineering Manager at Legion Intelligence, you will play a pivotal role in leading and supporting a team of platform and infrastructure engineers. You'll collaborate closely with go-to-market teams to ensure our roadmap aligns with the business's strategic goals. This role requires a deep dive into technical challenges surrounding secure and scalable workflows, driving innovation in product development, and creating a culture of collaboration, innovation, and high-impact.

Requirements

• 2-3+ years of experience hiring and leading teams as an engineering manager.
• 10+ years of experience as a senior individual contributor, with strong experience in software architecture in enterprise product development.
• Experience in Rust – our team works almost exclusively in Rust, and you must be comfortable operating in a Rust-heavy environment
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration with Kubernetes
• Experience supporting AI/ML platforms, including model serving, agent workflows, and MCP.
• Excitement and curiosity for 0->1 product development, with a track record of turning innovative ideas into successful features.
• Attend onsite meetings 2-3x a month. Location of onsites may vary

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge and experience in Agentic AI and its various applications.
• Experience designing for multi-tenant or on-prem/air-gapped environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, reliability, scalability, and security of the platform infrastructure supporting production Agentic AI systems.
• Bring an informed perspective and implement best practices around identity and access controls
• Establish clear patterns for service design, deployment, and inter-service communication.
• Own system observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and operational readiness.
• Set technical direction for infrastructure components written in Rust, ensuring performance, safety, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with go-to-market teams to align roadmap with business goals.
• Recruit, mentor, and retain high-performing engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
• Leverage passion for agentic AI and enterprise nuances to deliver solutions that enhance user experience.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed