Platform Engineering Manager

The role

You will lead two infrastructure teams responsible for the delivery platform and the Kubernetes platform. You will manage people, drive platform consolidation, and ensure reliability and compliance for the engineering delivery and compute platforms.

What you will do

• Lead and grow the team through 1:1s, expectations, and career development
• Manage and coordinate work to allow staff engineers to focus on technical leadership
• Collaborate with other Platform EMs
• Drive operational efficiency for the platform
• Finish platform consolidation and legacy retirement
• Run the fleet predictably including cluster upgrades and capacity work
• Treat engineers as customers by providing easy golden paths and documentation
• Own reliability and compliance including incident response and PCI DSS controls

Required qualifications

• 3+ years managing engineers on platform, infrastructure, or developer-productivity teams
• Experience leading senior and staff-level engineers
• Sound technical judgment in Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure
• Experience in CI/CD and GitOps delivery
• Track record of delivering cross-team platform migrations or adoption programs
• Experience owning production reliability including on-call health and incident response
• Clear, direct communication with engineers, peer leaders, and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Karpenter, Kyverno, or Backstage
• Experience building internal developer platforms with a product mindset
• Experience in a PCI DSS or similarly regulated environment
• Experience applying AI tools to developer workflows or platform operations
• Experience leading a team distributed across US and European time zones

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401k with company match
• RSUs
• Paid vacation
• 10 company holidays
• Sick time
• Volunteer time off
• Employee Resource Groups
• Monthly cell phone and internet stipend
• Tuition reimbursement up to $2,000 per calendar year

Before you apply

• Work authorization in the U.S. is required
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this role

About the company

SpotOn provides restaurant tech including point-of-sale and AI-powered profit tools to help independent restaurants compete. They are recognized as a Great Place to Work and have won awards for their restaurant POS.