Manager, Dev Platform Engineering (R4979)

What You'll Do

Lead and grow the Hivemind Development Platform team - coach and develop engineers, manage performance, and foster a culture of technical excellence, user empathy, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Set strategic direction for the Hivemind developer platform, in partnership with Product, Architecture, Software Operations and engineering leadership.

Own the developer platform roadmap, including SDK package management, Nix-based build infrastructure, developer environments, toolchains, target platforms, package distribution, and release workflows, including the operational readiness of service-backed components such as build clusters, package hosting, telemetry, authentication, and licensing.

Own the customer-facing SDK developer experience, including how users install the SDK, activate licenses, pull packages, build their own packages, and integrate with supported target platforms.

Drive cross-functional collaboration with Pilot, EdgeOS, Forge, SoftOps, and customer-facing teams to understand friction points and convert them into clear platform requirements.

Oversee architecture decisions for the standardized Hivemind package manager, CLI, package repository services, toolchain definitions, and reproducible build environments with a practical understanding of distributed systems, service reliability, observability, and operational tradeoffs.

Ensure the platform supports multi-language SDK development across C++, Python, Go, and TypeScript.

Define metrics and signals for SDK developer productivity, package reliability, build reproducibility, release quality, and customer adoption.

Represent the voice of SDK developers in engineering planning by championing ease-of-use, reproducibility, reliability, and clear ownership across the Hivemind ecosystem.

Establish lightweight operational excellence practices for developer platform services, including ownership models, runbooks, monitoring and alerting, service-level expectations, incident response, escalation paths, and release readiness.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Developer Infrastructure, or equivalent engineering roles
• 2+ years of people leadership experience
• 3+ years of strong understanding of C++, Linux, CMake, build systems, and software packaging in production systems.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to guide architecture across complex multi-team systems
• B.S. or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• You are organized and methodical
• You have a demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep experience with Nix, flakes, binary caches, remote builders, cross-compilation, or custom Linux target platforms
• Experience building production-ready developer tools, package managers, SDKs, CLIs, or artifact distribution systems from scratch
• Experience with Python, Go, TypeScript, or multi-language package ecosystems
• Experience with building production webservices