# Engineering Manager, Internal Platform

**Company:** [Baseten](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/baseten)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $165k – $330k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Monorepo, Bazel, Pants, Moon, Turborepo, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2026-06-09

> Lead and grow a platform engineering team building internal tooling, monorepos, CI pipelines, and shared libraries to boost productivity across the engineering organization. Requires engineering management experience plus strong technical background in Go/Python, Kubernetes, and developer tooling.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Team Leadership & Culture
- 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 direct reports.
- Partner with tech leads and engineering leadership to define the long-term vision and roadmap for platform infrastructure.

### Technical Direction
- 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.

### Cross-Functional Partnership
- 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.

## Requirements
- 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.

## Benefits
- 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 (offices 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.

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