Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

The role

This person will lead teams responsible for building and operating core platforms, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling. They will shape platform strategy and guide architectural decisions to power a high-scale eCommerce ecosystem.

What you will do

• Define and evolve the platform engineering strategy and multi-quarter roadmaps.
• Lead cloud and infrastructure engineering including compute, networking, storage, and infrastructure as code.
• Guide platform architecture and critical technical decisions.
• Own DevOps and CI/CD practices through automation and continuous improvement.
• Anticipate and address systemic risks to reliability, performance, or security.
• Build and maintain shared platforms and developer tooling.
• Strengthen observability and operational practices including monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response.
• Partner with product, architecture, security, and application teams.
• Lead and develop cross platform engineering teams through mentorship and clear priorities.
• Participate in hiring and team development.

Required qualifications

• 7+ Years of professional experience in software engineering with a focus on platform, infrastructure, or DevOps.
• 3+ years of experience in an engineering management or technical leadership role.
• 7+ years of experience and knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar).
• Experience with distributed systems, containerization, orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code.
• Experience owning or supporting CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Ability to lead architectural discussions and make data-informed technical decisions.
• Strong communication skills and experience collaborating across teams.
• Experience supporting high-scale or consumer-facing platforms.
• Background in Java/JVM-based systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with multi-region or multi-cloud environments.
• Familiarity with open-source technologies and ecosystems.
• Experience building or operating internal platforms or developer experience tooling.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of observability, reliability, and service ownership practices.

Benefits

• Performance bonuses
• Long term incentives
• A PTO policy
• Many other progressive benefits

About the company

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