Senior Manager, Infrastructure Platform Engineering
Lead a team building core infrastructure platform services for large-scale compute capacity allocation, state management, and security. Requires 10+ years infrastructure experience and 3+ years in engineering leadership.
About the job
What You'll Be Working On
- Leading the team responsible for the platform services that abstract underlying infrastructure into reliable, allocatable capacity, and for the systems that track and reconcile state across a large fleet
- Setting the technical roadmap across capacity and utilization intelligence, resource lifecycle and state management, and platform security and trust frameworks
- Driving the design of secure, well-instrumented platform systems — from Kubernetes-based orchestration and automation to lower-level system and hardware integration
- Hiring, mentoring, and growing a team of infrastructure software engineers; building a high-performing organization from a strong foundation
- Partnering with infrastructure, production engineering, and security teams to align platform capabilities with operational reliability, capacity, and trust requirements
- Improving platform efficiency and availability — characterizing bottlenecks, reducing stranded resources, and shortening operational and recovery cycles
- Establishing engineering standards for infrastructure software development: code quality, testing, deployment safety, and on-call practices for systems that span the platform
- Translating a vertically integrated infrastructure stack into reliable platform primitives that engineering teams can build on
- Staying technically hands-on — reviewing designs, contributing to architecture decisions, and being credible to the engineers you lead
What You'll Bring to the Team
- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure or systems software development, with at least 3+ years in an engineering leadership role
- Deep expertise in large-scale infrastructure platforms — building services that pool, allocate, and reconcile compute resources at scale
- Strong background with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) — orchestration, automation, and operating distributed systems in production
- Experience with distributed state management and control systems — modeling resource and system lifecycle, reconciling desired vs. actual state, and handling failure gracefully across a large fleet
- Experience with efficiency, capacity, or performance engineering — characterizing system behavior, identifying bottlenecks, and driving measurable improvements in utilization or availability
- A player-coach approach to management: hands-on enough to make technical calls, structured enough to grow a team and ship through them
- Track record of hiring strong infrastructure engineers and helping them grow into more senior roles
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where the path isn't fully paved — willing to drive ambiguity to clarity
Bonus Points
- Experience operating Kubernetes on bare-metal infrastructure as well as on managed cloud services (GKE, EKS, AKS)
- Familiarity with the operational challenges of GPU clusters, AI training, and inference workloads
- Working knowledge of platform security and trust concepts — secure boot, measured boot, TPMs, and hardware attestation
- Experience with capacity forecasting, demand modeling, or allocation optimization at scale
- Hands-on background with telemetry and observability platforms at scale (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
- Prior experience building infrastructure platforms at hyperscalers or cloud providers where internal engineers are the primary customer
- Familiarity with hardware-software co-design — understanding how platform choices affect physical infrastructure utilization
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- Mental health & wellness support
- Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
- Additional perks & programs specific to location
Skills
Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Azure, Infrastructure, Systems Software, Distributed Systems, Capacity Planning, Performance Engineering, Platform Security, Observability, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Bare Metal
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