# Engineering Manager - Platform

**Company:** [Rillet](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rillet)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $230k – $270k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Developer Tooling, CI/CD, Observability, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, API Design, backend engineering
**Posted:** 2026-07-20

> Engineering Manager owning platform architecture, infrastructure, developer experience, and observability at high-growth AI-native ERP company. Requires 6+ years engineering experience including 4+ years managing platform/infra teams, strong backend background, and track record improving developer productivity.

## Job Description

## 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.

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