# Engineering Team Lead, Platform

**Company:** [E2b](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/e2b)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Terraform, Kubernetes, Linux, Distributed Systems, cloud operations, iac, nomad
**Posted:** 2026-07-15

> Lead the Platform engineering team at E2B, owning people management, technical delivery, project scoping, on-call rotation, and hands-on contributions to cloud infrastructure, Terraform automation, and orchestration. Requires 5+ years infrastructure experience at scale, Linux expertise, leadership judgment, and in-office presence in San Francisco.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Leading a platform engineering team: 1:1s, performance reviews, career growth, hiring, and day-to-day people management
- Owning delivery and quality, making sure work meets the definition of done before it ships
- Running project management for the team: scoping work, leading projects, and delivering on time
- Owning day-to-day job allocation, unblocking, and providing technical context and direction to the team
- Owning technical guidance and code-review standards, and translating core architecture into how your team builds
- Sitting in the technical leadership group - surfacing signal from projects, operations, and on-call up to leadership
- Planning the on-call rotation, keeping it staffed, published, and followed, and owning incident follow-up
- Staying hands-on as a major contributor to projects yourself

## Requirements
- Experience leading or mentoring a team of infrastructure or platform engineers, with the judgment to make calls and own outcomes
- 5+ years building infrastructure, especially distributed systems, and operating it at scale
- 5+ years of Linux fundamentals: Kernel, networking, storage, namespaces, containers
- Hands-on experience with cloud operations, Terraform/IaC, and orchestration technologies like Kubernetes or Nomad
- A strong bar for delivery and quality; ship reliable work fast and hold your team to the same standard
- Detail-oriented with great taste in design and engineering
- Excited to work in person on a DevTool product and comfortable working closely with users
- Proactive, not afraid to take ownership of part of the product
- Comfortable with a standing early-morning window (8–9 local) for calls with the EU team

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) setups

## Benefits
- Healthcare, vision, and dental insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- 401k
- Variety of perks for in-office employees

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