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Senior Manager, Platform Engineering
Ser*** · Santa Clara, CA, United States
Santa Clara, CA, United StatesExp: 10+ yrs201,300-352,300 USD/yearlyRemote
Remuneration
Equity when applicable, variable or incentive compensation, health plans, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, flexible time away, and family leave programs.
Location
Santa Clara, CA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
Leads a team of 6–10 engineers building and operating cloud-native platform services, with responsibility for team development, delivery, and technical direction. The role sets roadmaps, guides architecture, and owns service reliability and operations across hyperscaler, on-premises, and sovereign environments. It calls for hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and distributed systems, plus experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure as code.
Benefits
Health plansFlexible spending accounts401(k) plan with company matchESPPMatching donationsFlexible time awayFamily leaveEquity when applicableVariable or incentive compensation
Qualifications
- Experience integrating AI into engineering or platform work.
- At least 10 years building production software, including hands-on experience operating distributed systems and Kubernetes workloads.
- At least 5 years managing software engineers, with a record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineers.
- Experience leading delivery of complex, business-critical systems from design through production operation.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including compute, networking, and IAM primitives.
- Working knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps delivery, and infrastructure as code.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead, hire, onboard, coach, and develop a team of 6–10 software engineers.
- Own domain priorities, roadmap, scope, sequencing, and end-to-end delivery.
- Establish SLOs, on-call practices, and operational reviews; improve reliability and reduce incidents and toil.
- Coordinate platform architecture and standards with engineering leaders and workload teams.
- Review designs and code, guide architectural decisions, and contribute hands-on when needed.
- Build an inclusive, high-trust engineering culture with clear expectations and feedback.
- Communicate status, risks, and trade-offs to leadership and stakeholders.
Skills
AWSAzureGCPIAMKubernetesServiceNow
Industry
Cloud platform
Relocation
No