# Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Delivery

**Company:** [Upstart](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/upstart)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $195k – $270k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** CI/CD, AWS, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Microservices, Observability, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-04-23

> Leads engineering team building reliable CI/CD pipelines, self-service developer platforms, and tools to accelerate software delivery. Requires 5+ years management and 7+ years in software/DevOps/platform engineering with strong technical expertise in AWS and distributed systems.

## Job Description

## How you’ll make an impact

### Team Leadership and Execution
- Manage and develop a team focused on CI/CD, service lifecycle tooling, and developer experience
- Drive execution against clear priorities with consistent, high-quality delivery
- Establish strong engineering practices across reliability, testing, and observability
- Build a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and pragmatic decision-making

### Delivery Platform Evolution
- Improve build and deployment workflows to increase speed and reduce friction
- Drive adoption of standardized deployment patterns across services
- Simplify and modernize delivery infrastructure while maintaining stability
- Ensure systems are scalable, secure, and resilient

### Developer Experience and Self-Service
- Enable self-service workflows for service creation, deployment, and platform integrations
- Reduce manual coordination, support tickets, and reliance on tribal knowledge
- Partner with stakeholders to identify pain points and prioritize high-leverage improvements
- Contribute to the engineering portal as the central interface for service lifecycle operations

### Reliability and Operational Excellence
- Embed observability and operational standards into delivery workflows
- Ensure systems support safe, auditable, and predictable releases
- Reduce toil and improve system health through targeted improvements

## Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of engineering management experience
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering
- Strong technical background in **CI/CD** systems, cloud infrastructure such as **AWS**, and distributed systems
- Ability to define clear team charters and execute with speed and alignment
- Track record of hiring, mentoring, and retaining high-performing engineers
- Execution-focused leadership with a track record of predictable delivery
- Technical depth to guide architectural decisions and trade-offs
- Systems thinking across reliability, scalability, and developer experience
- Strong cross-functional collaboration

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with managing large-scale **CI/CD** systems such as **Jenkins** or **GitHub Actions**
- Experience building or improving self-service developer platforms
- Familiarity with microservices architectures and service lifecycle management
- Experience supporting platform or architectural transitions
- Strong product mindset when building internal tools

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