Platform Engineering Manager
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SpotOnRestaurant technology
United States — US remote, or our Chicago or Detroit officesFull-TimeManager
SalaryOur base pay range starts at $180,000 -$215,000/year for this role; includes a company stock plan
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Job Details
- Experience
- 3+ years managing engineers on platform, infrastructure, or developer-productivity teams.
- Required Skills
- AWSKubernetesCI/CDGitHub Actions
Requirements
- Have 3+ years managing engineers on platform, infrastructure, or developer-productivity teams.
- Have experience leading senior- and staff-level engineers and setting direction without needing to be the deepest technical expert.
- Apply sound technical judgment in Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure; AWS is preferred.
- Understand CI/CD and GitOps delivery and be able to assess designs, production risks, and trade-offs.
- Have a track record delivering cross-team platform migrations or adoption programs, managing dependencies across many teams, and communicating risks to leadership.
- Have experience owning production reliability, including on-call health, incident response, and systemic follow-through.
- Communicate clearly and directly with engineers, peer leaders, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Helpful, not required: hands-on experience with Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Karpenter, Kyverno, or Backstage.
- Helpful, not required: experience building internal developer platforms with golden paths, self-service, and developer experience metrics.
- Helpful, not required: experience in a PCI DSS or similarly regulated environment, applying AI tools to developer workflows or platform operations, or leading a team across US and European time zones.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the Delivery and Compute infrastructure teams through regular 1:1s, clear expectations, candid feedback, and performance and career development.
- Handle management and coordination work so staff engineers can focus on architecture, technical collaboration, and complex technical problems.
- Collaborate with other Platform Engineering Managers across the platform domain.
- Drive remaining legacy platform and pipeline retirement, coordinating with service-owning teams and communicating risks to leadership.
- Make cluster upgrades, capacity work, and partner notifications predictable and team-owned while balancing interrupts with roadmap commitments.
- Improve the developer golden path through defaults, templates, documentation, AI-assisted tooling, and feedback from engineering teams.
- Lead incident response and learning for delivery and compute, and follow through on systemic reliability fixes.
- Partner with Security on PCI DSS controls for payments workloads.
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