# Engineering Manager, Platform

**Company:** [Motive](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/motive)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $229k – $290k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Amazon Vpc, Aws Iam, Cloud Governance, Observability, Llm Platforms, Aws Bedrock, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Oltp Databases, Data Platforms, Machine Learning Infrastructure, SLOs, Incident Management, Postmortems
**Posted:** 2026-08-07

> Leads the platform engineering organization, managing managers and driving reliable, scalable infrastructure initiatives across the company. Requires 12+ years of engineering experience, substantial infrastructure leadership, AWS expertise, and experience with AI platforms, data infrastructure, and operational excellence.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and scale a high-performing engineering team responsible for core platform systems used across the company.
- Define and drive multi-quarter platform initiatives that improve system reliability and product leverage.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to evolve the platform as a product, balancing long-term architecture with near-term business needs.
- Turn ambiguous, high-impact problem areas such as system scalability, reliability, and platform abstractions into clear execution plans.
- Drive alignment across teams working on complex, interdependent systems, including internal platforms, infrastructure, and cloud governance.
- Raise the bar on engineering quality, operational excellence, and execution across the platform organization.

## Requirements
- 12+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, including 5+ years leading infrastructure, SRE, or operations organizations and managing managers.
- Strong understanding of systems architecture.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Ability to collaborate effectively cross-functionally with a strong sense of ownership.
- Deep experience with AWS at scale, including VPC, IAM, multi-account environments, core services, observability, and cost optimization.
- High AI fluency, including evaluating, integrating, and governing LLM and AI platforms such as AWS Bedrock, Anthropic/Claude, and OpenAI.
- Experience interfacing with vendors and partners and managing cost governance.
- Strong understanding of databases and data platforms, including OLTP, analytics, and data and ML/AI infrastructure.
- Proven record running high-reliability platforms, including SLOs, incidents, on-call processes, and postmortems.
- Experience driving processes and programs that improve engineering excellence.
- Clear communication skills and ability to manage escalations with CEO-level visibility.
- Track record of running infrastructure as a product, including roadmaps, stakeholder communications, and adoption.

## Nice to Have
- Background in B2B SaaS or other high-reliability domains such as payments, logistics, or safety.
- Experience leading global, distributed teams across time zones.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base compensation range: **$229,000–$290,000 USD**.
- Benefits may include health, pharmacy, optical and dental care, paid time off, sick time off, short- and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, and 401(k) contributions, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Total compensation may include restricted stock units.

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