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Engineering Manager - Core Infra

Own Core Infra team end-to-end: set priorities, raise execution quality, and turn ICs into a self-organizing team. Requires 8+ years building production software (4+ in startups) managing platform engineers, plus deep familiarity with high-throughput and AI-powered systems.

190k – 250kNew York, NYEngineering ManagementHybrid8+ YOE
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About the role

What you'll work on

  • Own the health, direction, and delivery of the Core Infra team
  • Set clear priorities and a roadmap your team understands
  • Raise the bar on team-level execution quality
  • Build a team that self-organizes
  • Coach and develop engineers with clear expectations and direct feedback
  • Drive operational rigor proactively, defining SLIs/SLOs and getting ahead of reliability and tech-debt issues
  • Act as the default liaison to GTM, FDE, CX and other cross-functional partners
  • Pick up technical work alongside your team when it helps

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years building production software with at least 4 years in a startup environment, managing platform engineers directly
  • Deep familiarity with high-throughput, data-intensive systems, workflow/automation engines, or AI-powered platforms in production
  • Experience managing full stack engineers
  • Track record of turning individual contributors into a high-performing team
  • Strong enough technically to lead architecture discussions, review work credibly, and contribute to code
  • Fluent and opinionated about AI tooling and how it changes how teams build
  • Experience setting roadmaps and priorities in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • Point of view on high-performing engineering teams and experience driving reliability, quality, or operational metrics like DORA
  • Give direct, constructive feedback that people can act on
  • Clear written communication

Nice to have

  • Experience in Trust & Safety or abuse prevention
  • Experience operating at the Product ↔ Engineering boundary, or in a customer-facing engineering capacity

Skills

Platform EngineeringFull Stack EngineeringHigh-Throughput SystemsData-Intensive SystemsWorkflow EnginesAutomation EnginesAi PlatformsArchitectureSlisSLOsDora MetricsRoadmappingCoachingFeedback

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