Engineering Manager (Infrastructure Platform)

About the job

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and develop a team of infrastructure engineers responsible for critical production systems. This role combines people management with strong technical expertise, requiring a solid infrastructure background and deep knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, distributed systems, networking, and infrastructure automation.

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of infrastructure engineers responsible for critical production systems
• Own team execution, delivery, and day-to-day prioritization in alignment with infrastructure strategy and architectural direction
• Run the shared goals and collaborate with the Infrastructure Security, and other platform teams
• Translate infrastructure priorities into clear team plans, milestones for both infrastructure and product teams
• Work with Staff and Senior engineers to ensure technical solutions are delivered effectively and aligned with established architectural principles
• Ensure the reliability, availability, and operational readiness of systems owned by the team
• Own the team’s operational practices, incident response, postmortems, and completion of follow-up actions
• Set clear expectations, run regular 1:1s, provide actionable feedback, and support engineers through performance reviews and Individual Development Plans

• 7+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering, including 2+ years in an engineering management role within a Platform cluster
• Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams responsible for production infrastructure or platform systems
• Strong infrastructure engineering background, with sufficient technical depth to review architecture, challenge decisions, and work effectively with Staff and Senior engineers
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, especially AWS, Kubernetes, distributed systems, networking, and infrastructure automation
• Experience operating highly available, business-critical systems, including incident management, on-call, postmortems, capacity planning, and operational excellence
• Proven ability to set priorities, build execution plans, and deliver complex engineering initiatives while balancing reliability, technical debt, operational work, and long-term investments
• Ability to delegate technical ownership and enable senior engineers to lead major technical initiatives
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to align teams, manage dependencies, and resolve organizational, process, and technical bottlenecks
• Professional working proficiency in English

Nice to Have

• Experience operating infrastructure across multiple regions, data centers, or hybrid cloud environments
• Experience managing teams with significant networking or distributed infrastructure responsibilities
• Experience working in organizations where infrastructure teams provide internal platforms and services to a large number of engineering teams