# Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform

**Company:** [Baseten](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/baseten)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $165k – $330k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, GitHub Actions, Gitlab Ci, CircleCI, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
**Posted:** 2026-06-09

> Manage a team of cloud platform engineers building scalable, reliable infrastructure. Drive technical decisions, coach engineers, and partner cross-functionally on ML infrastructure priorities.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Recruit, hire, and grow a high-performing team of cloud platform engineers; provide ongoing coaching, feedback, and career development through regular 1:1s
- Set clear performance expectations, hold a high bar, and create an environment where engineers do their best work
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Drive day-to-day technical decisions through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions; translate the infrastructure roadmap into clear team priorities and milestones
- Establish standards and best practices for reliability, performance, and operational excellence; ensure the team owns projects end-to-end
- Exercise and encourage good judgment on tooling and architectural tradeoffs, with a bias against unnecessary complexity
- Partner with product and engineering teams to align infrastructure work with business priorities
- Serve as the escalation point for major incidents; drive resolution with urgency and ensure the team learns systematically

## Requirements
- Proven experience directly managing engineers in a cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE context (not managing managers)
- Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes, with the ability to engage credibly in architectural discussions and code reviews
- Strong background building and maintaining scalable, production infrastructure
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi) and CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins)
- Demonstrated ability to drive projects end-to-end — from specification to execution — and coach your team to do the same
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to influence across teams without direct authority
- Track record of recruiting and growing engineering talent
- Openness to learning about ML infrastructure

## Nice to Have
- Experience with OSS observability tooling (Prometheus, ELK stack, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Background in multi-cloud environments or GPU infrastructure
- Experience building and managing on-call rotations and incident response processes

## 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
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
- Company-facilitated 401(k)

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