Cinder
Engineering Manager - Core Infra
New York, Remote. Posted 4 months ago
The role
You will own the health, direction, and delivery of the Core Infra team. You will manage a senior team of engineers to ensure work is prioritized, coordinated with the rest of the company, and focused on the most important tasks.
What you will do
- Set clear priorities and a roadmap for the team
- Own the interface between Core Infra and the rest of the company
- Act as the default liaison to GTM, FDE, CX and other cross-functional partners
- Raise the bar on team-level execution regarding velocity and quality
- Coach and develop engineers through direct and constructive feedback
- Drive operational rigor by defining SLIs/SLOs and addressing reliability and tech-debt
Required qualifications
- 8+ years building production software
- At least 4 years in a startup environment
- Experience managing platform engineers directly
- Experience owning a team's delivery
- Experience growing ICs into stronger engineers
- 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 driving a high-performing team using metrics
- Technical credibility to lead architecture and trade-off discussions with staff-level engineers
- Fluency and opinionated views on how AI tooling changes how teams build
- Experience setting roadmaps and priorities in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment
- 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
Benefits
- Health, vision & dental benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- Fully paid commuter benefits
- Fully stocked office with paid lunch and dinner
- Relocation for the right person
About the company
Cinder is a small, fast-moving team backed by Accel and Y Combinator that provides mission-critical infrastructure to fight fraud, abuse, and manipulation on digital platforms.