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Manager, Embedded Platform Engineering
Scout Motors · Charlotte, NC, United States
Charlotte, NC, United StatesFull timeExp: 7+ yrs160,000-192,500 USD/yearlyRemote
Remuneration
Full-time exempt position with a base salary and eligibility for an annual performance bonus.
Location
Charlotte, NC, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Leads an embedded platform engineering team that partners with product and engineering groups to improve developer experience, platform adoption, and service reliability. The role combines people leadership with technical guidance on AWS cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD and GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and SLO-driven operations. The manager builds reusable self-service capabilities and helps product teams sustainably own their services in production.
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, and income protection plans401(k) with employer match and immediate vestingPaid time off and company or floating holidaysUp to 16 weeks of paid parental leaveBereavement, jury duty, voting, and military leaveCorporate vehicle programMobility stipendAnnual performance bonus eligibility
Qualifications
- 7+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Experience leading and mentoring engineers in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, cloud engineering, or a related discipline.
- Strong AWS and cloud-native architecture experience.
- Hands-on experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions; experience with ArgoCD and preferably Kargo.
- Production experience designing, operating, troubleshooting, and evolving Kubernetes platforms.
- Strong experience with Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, and GitOps practices.
- Experience with Crossplane or declarative infrastructure and platform APIs.
- Knowledge of telemetry, logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and observability practices.
- Experience with automation or scripting using Python, Shell, or Go.
- Understanding of cloud-native security, identity, secrets management, policy enforcement, and governance.
- Understanding of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, resilience, and production readiness.
- Ability to influence stakeholders and balance developer velocity, reliability, security, and operational risk.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop embedded platform engineers.
- Set team technical direction, priorities, standards, and operating models.
- Partner with product teams to improve adoption of shared platform capabilities and self-service practices.
- Develop golden paths, reusable patterns, and automated platform capabilities.
- Improve developer experience across provisioning, builds, deployments, observability, and production operations.
- Guide AWS cloud-native architecture and delivery practices using Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Help teams establish SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, production-readiness practices, and incident learning.
- Coordinate with platform, product, security, infrastructure, architecture, and technology leaders.
- Define measurable outcomes for platform adoption, developer experience, delivery efficiency, and reliability.
Skills
Argo CDAWSBackstageBashDockerGitHubGitHub ActionsGoKargoKubernetesMakeOpenTelemetryPythonTerraformIAMSecrets Manager
Degrees
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
Work schedule
4-5 days per week in office
Travel
Occasional travel for company events
Industry
AutomotiveElectric vehiclesTransportation technology
Relocation
No