Sr Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

Team: Core Engineering

Location: San Francisco, CA

Commitment: Full-Time

Workplace Type: hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the long-term strategy and architecture for cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, CI/CD systems, and shared engineering services that improve developer productivity and platform reliability.

• Drive delivery of large-scale infrastructure initiatives while balancing reliability, scalability, security, operational excellence, customer impact, and cost optimization.

• Establish engineering processes, operating rhythms, service ownership models, and technical standards that improve execution, software quality, incident response, and organizational efficiency.

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Compliance, Finance, and Executive leadership to prioritize investments, manage technical risk, and align infrastructure capabilities with business objectives.

• Foster a culture of accountability, inclusion, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 12+ years of software engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or related technical experience.

• 4+ years of engineering management experience

• Proven experience building, operating, and scaling highly available cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, or developer infrastructure.

• Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and modern cloud architecture patterns.

• Strong background in DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD systems, automation, and platform engineering.

• Experience designing reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure for production environments.

• Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, networking, storage, security, observability, and operational excellence principles.

• Experience balancing technical debt, infrastructure investment, risk reduction, and feature delivery to maximize long-term business value.

• Demonstrated success leading organization-wide technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams and stakeholders.

• Strong incident management and operational leadership experience, including escalation management, post-incident reviews, and systemic reliability improvements.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and business leaders and communicate tradeoffs clearly.

• Proven ability to recruit, coach, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering managers, staff engineers, and senior individual contributors.