Manager II, Engineering - Kubernetes Platform

5 hours, 31 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
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5K-10K
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Description

  • Lead engineers responsible for Kubernetes platform infrastructure and supporting systems.
  • Define the team’s 12-month strategy, roadmap, and success measures.
  • Improve platform reliability, security, scalability, and operational efficiency.
  • Drive architecture and technical decisions across Kubernetes and production infrastructure.
  • Build automation, standard configurations, and self-service tools that reduce manual work.
  • Set operational standards for service health, observability, on-call, incident response, and safe changes.
  • Partner with engineering, product, finance, security, and cloud-provider teams on shared challenges.
  • Recruit, coach, and develop engineers while fostering an inclusive, accountable team.
  • Use AI to accelerate analysis, investigations, documentation, and repeatable workflows with appropriate verification.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience managing engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, cloud systems, distributed systems, or similar areas.
  • Experience managing teams that build or operate large-scale cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, shared compute platforms, or production systems.
  • Experience setting multi-quarter technical strategy and delivering through senior engineers.
  • Technical experience with public cloud, highly available distributed systems, Kubernetes or shared-compute platforms, and production operations.
  • Strong reliability mindset and experience leading teams responsible for production operational quality.
  • Experience leading cross-functional infrastructure programs and communicating reliability, security, cost, capacity, and delivery tradeoffs.
  • Demonstrated ability to use and critically evaluate AI-assisted work through testing, source checking, data validation, or peer review.
  • High integrity and ownership, including protecting sensitive data and remaining accountable for final decisions.
  • Preferred: experience with managed Kubernetes services such as Amazon EKS or GKE, large Kubernetes fleets, infrastructure as code, observability, networking, GPU or machine-learning infrastructure, capacity management, cloud cost, or resource allocation.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $177,185–$364,795 USD for US-based applicants, plus equity eligibility.
  • Flexible remote work model with in-office collaboration 1–2 times per quarter; the role can be based anywhere in the country.
  • Equal opportunity workplace with support for medical and religious accommodations.
  • No relocation assistance is provided.

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