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Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform

165k – 330kSan Francisco, CAHybrid7+ YOE
Summary

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

About the role

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)
Skills
KubernetesTerraformCloudFormationPulumiGitHub ActionsGitLab CICircleCIJenkinsPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetry
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