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Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Delivery

Leads engineering team building reliable CI/CD pipelines, self-service developer platforms, and tools to accelerate software delivery. Requires 5+ years management and 7+ years in software/DevOps/platform engineering with strong technical expertise in AWS and distributed systems.

195k – 270kUnited StatesEngineering ManagementRemote5+ YOE
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About the role

How you’ll make an impact

Team Leadership and Execution

  • Manage and develop a team focused on CI/CD, service lifecycle tooling, and developer experience
  • Drive execution against clear priorities with consistent, high-quality delivery
  • Establish strong engineering practices across reliability, testing, and observability
  • Build a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and pragmatic decision-making

Delivery Platform Evolution

  • Improve build and deployment workflows to increase speed and reduce friction
  • Drive adoption of standardized deployment patterns across services
  • Simplify and modernize delivery infrastructure while maintaining stability
  • Ensure systems are scalable, secure, and resilient

Developer Experience and Self-Service

  • Enable self-service workflows for service creation, deployment, and platform integrations
  • Reduce manual coordination, support tickets, and reliance on tribal knowledge
  • Partner with stakeholders to identify pain points and prioritize high-leverage improvements
  • Contribute to the engineering portal as the central interface for service lifecycle operations

Reliability and Operational Excellence

  • Embed observability and operational standards into delivery workflows
  • Ensure systems support safe, auditable, and predictable releases
  • Reduce toil and improve system health through targeted improvements

Minimum Qualifications

  • 5+ years of engineering management experience
  • 7+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering
  • Strong technical background in CI/CD systems, cloud infrastructure such as AWS, and distributed systems
  • Ability to define clear team charters and execute with speed and alignment
  • Track record of hiring, mentoring, and retaining high-performing engineers
  • Execution-focused leadership with a track record of predictable delivery
  • Technical depth to guide architectural decisions and trade-offs
  • Systems thinking across reliability, scalability, and developer experience
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with managing large-scale CI/CD systems such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions
  • Experience building or improving self-service developer platforms
  • Familiarity with microservices architectures and service lifecycle management
  • Experience supporting platform or architectural transitions
  • Strong product mindset when building internal tools

Skills

CI/CDAWSJenkinsGitHub ActionsDevOpsDistributed SystemsMicroservicesObservabilityReliability EngineeringCloud Infrastructure

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