Technical Manager, Software Platform

Responsibilities

• Manage, grow, and hire for a team of platform and infrastructure engineers — and mentor ICs to continuously raise the technical bar
• Hands-on technically — dig into code, debug systems, and work alongside the team to solve hard problems
• Own the roadmap for your domain, define ambitious goals, and reliably deliver against them
• Build and operate the systems that power the software development lifecycle — build systems, CI/CD, developer tooling, deployment automation — with high reliability, observability, and performance
• Improve engineering and researcher productivity by building well-designed platform abstractions, standardizing workflows, and reducing infrastructure friction
• Partner across infrastructure, security, research, and engineering to ensure seamless integration
• As the team grows, potentially expand scope into cloud platform services — including workload routing, resource optimization, and cost governance

Requirements

• Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience
• 2+ years of engineering management experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring engineering teams
• Prioritized ability to attract, hire, and retain exceptional engineering talent
• Strong programming experience in Python, Go, C++, or similar
• Experience building or operating developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, or internal platform services — ideally with exposure to both on-prem and cloud environments
• Experience operating critical systems with high reliability requirements
• Knowledge of best practices for scalable system design and operational excellence
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering and research organizations
• Experience operating critical systems with high reliability and availability requirements
• Knowledge of best practices for scalable system design, reliability engineering, and operational excellence
• Strong communication skills and ability to drive alignment across stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) alongside on-prem systems
• Experience with large monorepos, Bazel or similar build systems
• Experience improving developer productivity at scale
• Experience with CI/CD systems or internal platform engineering
• Experience optimizing cloud resource usage or managing cloud cost efficiency at scale
• Experience leading teams through cloud adoption or infrastructure modernization