Salary Range: $160k - $205k - w/ annual bonus
Core communication hours: 9am-6pm ET / 8am - 5pm CT / 8am -5pm MT / 7am - 5pm PT
Job Summary:We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Platform Engineering Manager to lead our platform engineering team. You will guide the team in designing, building, and maintaining the underlying infrastructure and tools that empower our product development teams. This role requires a strong technical background in Platform engineering / Dev(Sec)Ops, proven leadership skills, and a passion for mentoring high-performing teams.
Primary Duties Including % of time:- 75% - Manage, lead & mentor our Platform Engineers
- 10% - Design, build, manage and monitor the infrastructure of RoadRunner technology
- 10% - Collaborate with product and engineering managers to define technical roadmaps and help guide our technology north star
- 5% - Maintain current awareness of marketplace trends, both technical and process improvements
Travel Required:Organizational Relationship:- Reports To: CTO
- Direct Reports: Platform Team Engineers
- Interacts with: Technology, Product, Analysis and Business Strategy
Skills and Experience:- 7+ years professional experience in Platform engineering, Dev(Sec)Ops or related field of engineering
- 3+ years experience as an engineering manager or team lead
- Strong technical background in platform engineering, with hands-on experience in relevant or similar technologies (AWS services and ecosystem, Terraform, Docker, DataDog)
- Experience building and managing web application infrastructure at scale.
- Preferred experience in data engineering and application architecture
- Preferred ML Ops experience, or otherwise willing to learn
- Experience creating technical scopes, technical requirements documents and technical roadmaps.
- The ability to communicate technical concepts and decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred experience hiring and growing an engineering team.
- Experience overseeing and implementing technical processes such as pull request reviews, code coverage, continuous integration and deployment, and cloud platform management.
- The ability to debug complex technical issues.
- Passionate about business results and quality, with a strong sense of accountability, metrics and ownership.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to grasp the tactical details.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, is dynamic, and can capture a group's interest and maintain it as well as the ability to facilitate meetings with diverse and sometimes conflicting points of view.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, multi-task, and effectively prioritize assignments with minimal supervision.
- Ability to influence and collaborate at all levels and across all functions of the organization.
- Proven ability to organize/manage multiple priorities coupled with the flexibility to quickly adapt to ever changing business needs.
- Strong analytical and problem solving. Solid decision making in a timely manner.
- Enthusiasm for our sustainability driven mission
Core Values:- Trust - Have confidence in our team. Have integrity in your actions.
- Care personally about each other - Show compassion, empathy and open-mindedness.
- Be Passionate - Love what you do. Love what we do.
- Embrace challenge - See obstacles as opportunities to learn and grow.
- Be Humble - Stay grounded. Seek feedback. Be curious.
- Be Accountable - Take ownership. Be reliable. Be proactive.
We are excited to consider talented individuals from across the country. However, please note that we currently
do not support candidates residing in the following states:
Alaska (AK) / Delaware (DE) / Hawaii (HI) / Kansas (KS) / Louisiana (LA) / Maine (ME) / Montana (MT) / Nebraska (NE) / Nevada (NV) / New Mexico (NM) / North Dakota (ND) / South Dakota (SD) / Vermont (VT) / Wyoming (WY) /
Puerto Rico (PR)We thank all candidates for their interest in RoadRunner, but we cannot respond to everyone personally. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. We look forward to reviewing your application!
