Engineering Manager, Infrastructure / Platform

The role

You will lead the Platform & Infrastructure team to provide reliable foundations, self-serve tooling, and guardrails for other engineering teams. You will drive the agentic engineering transformation by designing systems that enable autonomous agentic work.

What you will do

• Leading and managing a team of engineers
• Setting strong output and productivity expectations
• Contributing technically through coaching, leadership, and direct contributions
• Shipping smaller projects, bugfixes, and improving the agent environment using coding agents
• Driving the team's agentic engineering transformation
• Setting the pace and driving velocity while setting a high quality bar
• Collaborating with partner functions like Product and Design
• Pushing for changes to shared infrastructure, tooling, and systems
• Building and maintaining a healthy, high-performing team culture

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of IC software engineering experience on fast-paced, high performance teams
• 4+ years of direct team management experience
• Strong backend, systems, platform/infra, or performance background
• Deeply technical and building faster than ever with coding agents
• High agency but low ego
• Strong conviction that 10x engineering output is possible with agentic tools and practices
• Proven ability to drive velocity, hold a high quality bar, and give direct performance feedback
• Excited about working in-person in San Francisco at least 3-4 days per week

Nice to have

• Background in AI-native products and systems
• Track record of driving org-wide developer productivity or tooling initiatives

About the company

Speak is an AI company building a human-level, AI-powered language tutor. The company has a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.