Platform Engineering Manager - Platform Testing

Cedar

1d • $195,000 - $230,000 • Remote

About The Position

Cedar is a patient payment and engagement platform that elevates the total patient experience beyond clinical care. Our platform leverages data science and technology to deliver modern intelligence to providers and simplify the healthcare experience for patients. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead Cedar’s Platform Testing team. This team owns the systems, strategy, and developer experience that help Cedar ship high-quality software quickly and confidently. Cedar is moving toward a more service-oriented architecture while software delivery is also changing rapidly. Code volume is increasing, LLM-generated code is becoming more common, and system complexity is growing. Our testing strategy needs to evolve to meet that future. In this role, you will lead the transformation of Cedar’s testing ecosystem from a source of friction into a force multiplier for product stability and developer velocity. You will define and execute a strategy that helps engineers get faster, more meaningful feedback; reduces the cost and complexity of validation; and ensures our tests are clearly aligned to product capabilities and business outcomes. The first problems you will focus on include improving cost-effective QA environments for internal partners, building a better testing strategy for service-to-service validation, and solving gaps in model settings and entitlements testing. Over time, you will help Cedar move toward a future where intelligent automation, LLM-powered code review, and platform-level validation reduce manual review bottlenecks and improve confidence at scale. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will manage and grow a small team, work deeply with engineers, partner closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Delivery, and Integrations, and help Cedar raise the bar for how we build and validate software.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful exposure to testing, developer experience, infrastructure, CI/CD, or platform engineering.
• 2+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience.
• Experience building or operating systems that support software delivery, such as CI pipelines, test infrastructure, release tooling, internal platforms, or developer productivity systems.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to evaluate tradeoffs across reliability, cost, developer experience, and delivery speed.
• Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders and translating ambiguous needs into concrete plans.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write strategy documents, project proposals, and clear technical guidance.
• Experience developing engineers through coaching, feedback, delegation, and career development.
• A bias toward action and ownership in complex, evolving environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with service-oriented architecture, contract testing, integration testing, or distributed systems validation.
• Experience with Python, Django, Go, Kotlin, or large monorepos.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD systems.
• Experience with AWS, containers, Kubernetes, or cloud-based test environments.
• Experience building internal platforms or self-service tooling for engineers.
• Experience applying LLMs or AI-assisted workflows to software development, testing, review, or developer productivity.
• Experience in healthcare, fintech, or another regulated domain where reliability and correctness matter.
• Experience leading talks, workshops, focus groups, or internal training programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead Cedar’s Platform Testing team, including strategy, execution, talent development, and stakeholder alignment.
• Develop and execute a testing platform roadmap that improves developer velocity, product reliability, and confidence in releases.
• Partner with Staff Engineers and Architects to implement testing strategies as we move toward service-oriented architecture, including patterns for service-to-service validation, test environment strategy, and product-aligned coverage.
• Improve the developer experience of testing by reducing slow feedback loops, lowering test environment friction, and making failures easier to understand and act on.
• Own and evolve internal QA environment strategy, including cost-effective environments that support Delivery, Product, and Integrations partners during go-lives.
• Drive solutions for testing model settings, entitlements, and other complex configuration-driven behavior.
• Help reshape Cedar’s current testing approach into a deliberate strategy that balances unit, integration, end-to-end, contract, and environment-based testing.
• Promote testing best practices across engineering through documentation, training, stakeholder engagement, and direct collaboration with product engineering teams.
• Partner with engineering leaders, architects, product teams, and internal customers to understand pain points and translate them into clear platform investments.
• Explore and apply LLM-powered workflows for code review, test generation, validation, and quality automation.
• Manage and grow engineers on the team, including coaching, performance management, career development, and hiring.
• Create a culture of high ownership, technical excellence, pragmatic decision-making, and continuous improvement.

Benefits

• Flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
• Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days
• 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
• Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
• Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles), and health benefits, including fertility & adoption assistance, that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
• Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
• Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally

What This Job Offers

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