Engineering Manager, Internal Platform

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• Recruit, hire, and develop a high-performing team of platform engineers.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.
• Provide regular coaching, feedback, and career development support to your direct reports.
• Partner with tech leads and engineering leadership to define the long-term vision and roadmap for platform infrastructure.
• Guide the team in creating diverse tooling tailored to the needs of different engineering teams.
• Oversee the enhancement of monorepo capabilities and development of project templates for consistency and efficiency.
• Drive the design and implementation of shared libraries focused on observability.
• Champion improvements to the speed, reliability, and comprehensiveness of CI pipelines.
• Provide a strong platform for high-quality agentic development across the organization.
• Ensure the team delivers innovative solutions that improve visibility in continuous delivery (CD) processes.
• Act as the primary advocate for platform engineering across the organization, ensuring teams have the resources and tools to stay productive.
• Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to prioritize platform investments based on business impact.
• Communicate team progress, priorities, and technical trade-offs clearly to leadership.
• Proven experience managing and growing engineering teams, ideally in a platform, infrastructure, or developer experience context.
• Strong technical background in Go and/or Python, with the ability to engage credibly in code reviews and architectural discussions.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/Docker tooling (e.g., Helm, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience managing and working within large monorepos; bonus points for familiarity with tools such as Bazel, Pants, Moon, or Turborepo.
• Advanced understanding of CI/CD concepts and a track record of improving developer experience at scale.
• Excellent developer tool culture with a focus on best practices; bonus points if you or your team has contributed to open-source developer tooling.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority across teams.
• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
• Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
• Company-facilitated 401(k)
• Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.