Engineering Manager, Platform Reliability

About This Role

Key ResponsibilitiesAI-extracted

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  Build and lead a new Platform Reliability team, hiring and developing engineers while setting a clear standard for collaboration, ownership, technical excellence, and growth.
• 2
  Partner with technical leaders to define the roadmap for core reliability systems such as load shedding, rate limiting, circuit breakers, traffic controls, and other platform guardrails.
• 3
  Establish and evangelize best-in-class operating practices for incident response, postmortems, and proactive risk management through SLOs and capacity planning.
• 4
  Work across platform and infrastructure teams to embed reliability into architecture, planning, and delivery from the start of new initiatives.
• 5
  Lead end-to-end projects from scoping and design through rollout, making thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, safety, and long-term maintainability.

RequirementsAI-extracted

• 5+ years of engineering management experience, ideally with backend, infrastructure, or reliability-focused teams.
• Strong software engineering background and can contribute meaningfully to technical discussions, design tradeoffs, and execution even if you are primarily a people leader.
• Familiarity with building and operating services in the cloud (e.g. AWS) and/or using cloud-native systems (e.g. Kubernetes).
• Experience in building and operating production systems at scale, and you care deeply about failure modes, resilience, and graceful degradation.
• Being comfortable working with distributed systems concepts such as backpressure, capacity planning, traffic management, and explicit reliability targets.

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