Engineering Manager - Platform

What You'll Do

• Own the architecture, infrastructure, and developer tooling that every engineer at Rillet depends on - from CI/CD and deployment practices to the observability and operational efficiency that keeps us shipping fast and safely at scale.
• Build and champion the internal tooling and developer experience that makes engineers at Rillet faster than engineers anywhere else.
• Set technical direction for how we build reliability, security, and compliance into our systems from the ground up - including the design and scalability of our external API.
• Hire and develop high-caliber platform engineers across a growing surface area, establishing the culture and craft standards that define great platform work at Rillet.
• Partner with engineering leadership to define roadmap priorities and translate ambiguous problems into clear technical plans.

Who We're Looking For

• 4+ years managing platform, infrastructure, or developer tooling teams at high-growth tech companies, with 6+ years in engineering overall.
• Background as a backend engineer who moved into platform work - you understand what it means to build for other engineers, not just alongside them.
• Deep experience with observability tooling, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Track record of improving developer experience in measurable, concrete ways.
• Comfortable driving technical direction across teams without relying on direct authority.
• Startup experience at a similar stage, or IC experience at a smaller company before managing at a larger one - you know how to operate when the playbook isn't written yet.
• Drawn to hard, ambiguous problems and energized by building in environments where you're figuring things out as you go.

Bonus Points

• Experience owning and scaling public-facing APIs.
• Familiarity with enterprise readiness (SOC 2, SSO/SAML, audit logging, or similar).
• Background in fintech, ERP, or accounting software.
• Kotlin, Java, or TypeScript experience.