Engineering Manager - Platform
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BuildkiteSoftware Delivery
ANZ Region, AU/NZ and US Pacific time zones to maximise synchronous overlapFull-TimeManager
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Ruby on RailsPostgresCI/CDTerraform
Requirements
- Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
- Strong Platform / SRE background.
- Familiarity with Rails, Ruby, Postgres, AWS containerised environments, Terraform.
- Deep understanding of deployment safety — canaries, blue/green, smoke tests.
- Operational maturity — infrastructure upgrades, compliance (SOC2 a plus), and on-call structures.
- Strong written communication.
- Customer instinct — engage with stakeholders and translate needs into direction.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support the Platform team — build a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, and psychological safety.
- Partner with other Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and Engineering Leadership to shape what the team works on next.
- Drive delivery of work that improves the scalability, reliability, and security of our platform.
- Run regular 1:1s — understand what motivates each engineer and help them grow their career.
- Unblock the team — remove bottlenecks, make tactical calls, get into the code when it helps.
- Review code and technical plans.
- Join customer calls to hear what's breaking and shape the team's direction.
- Evaluate and manage key vendor relationships.
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