Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

About the role

Laravel is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our all-remote Laravel Cloud Infrastructure organization. Our mission is to improve the experience of developers everywhere in the world. To do that, we don't just build beautiful software products - we invest in a world-class infrastructure foundation and the people who make it possible. We're taking on ambitious and exciting infrastructure challenges, and we're looking for a leader who can help the organization succeed in that mission.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of Engineering Team Leads, including our Infrastructure and SRE leads
• Set the standard for how those leads manage, develop, and grow their own engineers
• Foster an engineering culture that emphasizes autonomy, ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement across the organization
• Support career development through 1:1s, goal setting, and regular feedback - both with your direct reports and, by extension, the wider organization
• Collaborate with leadership to shape strategy, resourcing, and roadmap for the infrastructure organization
• Own reliability, availability, and performance outcomes across the platform, including our SRE practice (on-call, incident response, SLOs/SLIs)
• Drive adoption of infrastructure best practices such as GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and security
• Partner with product to help shape and define requirements for upcoming projects
• Communicate technical direction and priorities clearly with leads, engineers, leadership, and stakeholders
• Work closely with other engineering leaders to ensure seamless platform experiences

Requirements

• 6+ years experience leading infrastructure engineering organizations, including experience managing other engineering managers or team leads (manager-of-managers experience)
• Deep understanding of what people - and the leaders responsible for them - need to do their best work
• Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering practices: on-call design, incident response, and reliability/availability frameworks (SLOs/SLIs)
• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes in production environments
• Familiarity with the operator pattern (Go)
• Strong understanding of AWS services, including EKS, VPC/networking fundamentals, and IAM and security architecture
• Experience running large-scale distributed systems with high availability
• Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, or similar)
• Strong communication and leadership skills - able to align teams and leaders, unblock engineers, and move projects forward

Benefits

• Small tight-knit team where every developer counts
• Fully remote and globally distributed working environment
• Option to attend Laracon conferences around the world
• Health care plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Paid time off (Vacation, Sick & Public holidays)
• Family leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Pension plans (as locally applicable)
• Performance based bonus plan
• Company equity