Engineering Manager, Platform

Motive•Seattle, WA

1d•$229,000 - $315,000

About The Position

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector. Visit gomotive.com to learn more. About the Role: We are looking for a seasoned engineering leader who will lead the Core Infrastructure and Operations Engineering. You will be responsible for managing and mentoring a multi-functional team across SRE, Operations, Data & AI Platform, and Database Engineering. You will own our cloud platform, run infrastructure as a product, and drive enterprise-grade reliability for mission‑critical systems. As an engineering leader you’ll be be called on to lead during critical moments and operate with executives of the company

Requirements

10+ years of experience as an engineering leader, deep expertise in running cloud platforms at scale, strong sense for systems architecture.
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Ability to collaborate and work effectively cross functionally with a strong sense of ownership
Experience managing teams of engineers and being responsible for multiple projects concurrently
Very strong domain knowledge in cloud infrastructure, observability
Experience in interfacing with vendors, partners and cost governance
Experience and strong understanding of Data and ML infrastructure.
Experience driving processes and programs to raise the bar and engineering excellence

Responsibilities

Lead and scale a high-performing engineering team responsible for core platform systems used across the company
Define and drive multi-quarter platform initiatives that improve developer velocity, system reliability, and product leverage
Partner closely with product and engineering leaders to evolve the platform as a product, balancing long-term architecture with near-term business needs
Take ambiguous, high-impact problem areas (e.g., system scalability, reliability, platform abstractions) and turn them into clear execution plans
Drive alignment across multiple teams working on complex, interdependent systems including internal platforms, infrastructure as well as cloud governance.
Raise the bar on engineering quality, operational excellence, and execution across the platform organization