Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform

The role

You will manage a team of cloud platform engineers responsible for building scalable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure. You will unblock your team, shape technical direction, and translate user learnings into better infrastructure.

What you will do

• 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 and create an environment for engineers to 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.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to align infrastructure work with business priorities.
• Serve as the escalation point for major incidents.
• Ensure the team learns systematically from incidents to improve infrastructure.

Required qualifications

• Proven experience directly managing engineers in a cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE context.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
• Strong background building and maintaining scalable, production infrastructure.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins).
• Demonstrated ability to drive projects end-to-end.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Track record of recruiting and growing engineering talent.

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 (U.S. only)
• Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
• Company-facilitated 401(k) (U.S. only)
• Exposure to a variety of ML startups

About the company

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies. They enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production.