Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

About the role

Panorama Education is a technology company building the leading platform for student insight and action in K-12. We help modern school systems understand what students need and take effective action. By bringing together academics, attendance, behavior, and engagement data with AI, we give educators the full picture of every student and the intelligence to decide what to do next. As a mission-driven company supporting 15 million students in 2,000 districts nationwide, the work we do has a direct line to student outcomes every day. Join us and help shape what education looks like for the next generation. As the Senior Engineering Manager for Platform, you'll lead the team behind the foundational capabilities that power Panorama's products: shared services, core infrastructure, developer tooling, and operational standards. You'll own how the team builds, delivers, and operates that foundation, and you'll grow the engineers who do the work. This role pairs closely with the Lead Product Manager, Platform to set direction and deliver on it. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you'll manage a team of senior and staff engineers. Your job is to keep the platform solid as Panorama grows, so teams can build on it quickly and securely without inheriting debt down the line. As Panorama invests more heavily in AI across the product and internally, the platform is what makes that work durable and safe to run at scale. This is a team with real technical strength and a wide, growing surface area, which gives this role real room to shape how the team scales. You'll partner closely with a newly-arriving Lead Product Manager to build the roadmap and working cadence together from day one, and help translate Panorama's growing investment in AI into practices the team can rely on.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team. Build and grow a team of senior and staff-level platform engineers. Set a high bar, give direct feedback, and hold people to clear expectations while keeping the team moving fast.
• Guide technical direction. Partner with staff engineers on architecture and tradeoffs across infrastructure, shared services, and system design, including the infrastructure that AI-powered capabilities depend on