Sr. Engineering Manager: Cloud + Platform (US - East)

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About The Position

We are investing in our cloud platform as a core product and reliability as a competitive advantage. As we scale, we need a senior engineering leader who can own our cloud platform foundations end-to-end: spanning reliability, infrastructure, and the software systems that power our control plane.

This role leads two closely related teams:

SRE / Infrastructure - reliability, scalability, observability, and operational excellence
Cloud Control Plane - Backend and platform software engineers building APIs, distributed services, and systems that power our multi-tenant cloud offering.
This is a hands-on, player-coach role with meaningful technical influence and people leadership.

Requirements

• 5+ years in senior technical leadership roles (SRE, Infrastructure, Platform, or Cloud Engineering), including at least 2 years of people management experience, ideally across more than one team
• Track record of balancing hands-on technical leadership with people leadership
• Strong grasp of SRE fundamentals: SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, incident management, capacity planning, and operational excellence
• Extensive experience with AWS, GCP and Azure managed services
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals and experience building and operating distributed systems in production.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Kubernetes Operators/Controllers, containerized workloads, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi)
• Excellent communication: can translate reliability tradeoffs to product/exec stakeholders and write crisp incident/postmortem artifacts
• Proven ability to translate operational pain points into engineering deliverables

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with or integrating AI-powered systems or tooling
• Experience operating multi-tenant or high-isolation customer environments
• Familiarity with distributed databases and performance tuning at scale
• Experience building internal developer platforms or paved paths

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow two teams (up to 10 engineers) across SRE and Cloud Platform
• Coach senior engineers through technical ambiguity and design tradeoffs
• Recruit, hire, onboard and develop engineers while elevating the overall strength of the team
• Own the technical direction for infrastructure, reliability, and cloud platform foundations
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to shape the roadmap
• Guide project planning by defining milestones, identifying dependencies, and working toward timely and meaningful delivery
• Ensure the systems and platforms are operable, debuggable, and resilient by design
• Participate in on-call rotations at a sustainable level to stay grounded in real operational issues

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in a rapidly growing sector
• A supported environment where your ideas lead to real impact
• Competitive salary based on experience
• Stock options at an early-stage startup
• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare (US-based) and other insurance
• A full remote and flexible schedule to accommodate different timezones
• Twice-yearly travel for team offsites focused on team bonding, collaboration, and having fun!

What This Job Offers

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