Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Foundations

Responsibilities

• Cloud Foundations team leadership - roadmap, strategy, and execution.
• Driving measurable outcomes quarter to quarter.
• Shape Hinge's platform-level infrastructure strategy, partnering with other leads on cross-pillar dependencies and tradeoffs.
• Lead cloud infrastructure initiatives focused on reliability, scalability, security, and cost management.
• Build tools and automation that make our systems more consistent, observable, and self-service.
• Partner with product engineering teams to improve developer velocity and experience.
• Contribute to code reviews, architecture discussions, and platform documentation.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, inclusion, and autonomy grounded in clarity and trust.

Requirements

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 4+ years in management.
• Deep technical background in cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and distributed systems, basic comfort with developer platforms.
• Proven success leading reliability, automation, and cost-efficiency efforts at scale.
• Comfort operating at both team-level (hands-on technical leadership, direct people management) and platform-level (cross-team strategy, cross-pillar partnership).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; thrives in cross-functional environments.
• Passion for developer experience and building tools that make engineers more productive.

Qualifications

• Experience operating Kubernetes at scale.
• Background in modern IaC.
• Familiarity with cost management at scale.
• Prior strategic / architect / staff-engineer-shape role bridging team execution and broader platform strategy.