Engineering Manager II - Platform Backend

About the Role:

We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager II to lead engineering for our Platform Services team - the team responsible for the shared infrastructure, internal tooling, and core services that other product teams build on. This is not a purely managerial role; you'll stay hands-on with architecture, code, and systems while owning team outcomes, delivery, and platform reliability at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities:

• Architecture & Scale: Own and evolve distributed systems architecture for platform services, ensuring they're reliable, extensible, and performant under enterprise-scale load.
• Cost & Efficiency: Drive continuous cost optimization initiatives across cloud infrastructure without compromising reliability or performance - with measurable, sustained impact.
• Execution & Delivery: Own roadmap planning, estimation, and predictable delivery for the platform team, balancing tech debt, new capabilities, and operational stability.
• Reliability & Operations: Establish strong observability and incident management practices; ensure the team can detect, diagnose, and resolve issues quickly, and drive blameless postmortems that lead to real fixes.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Use metrics and data to prioritize, evaluate trade-offs, and report on platform health, cost, and team performance.
• People & Culture: Hire, mentor, and grow engineers; set technical standards; build a culture of ownership and craftsmanship within the team.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product engineering teams, SRE/infra, security, and leadership to align platform capabilities with organizational needs.
• Communication: Represent the platform team's priorities, risks, and progress clearly to engineering leadership and stakeholders across the org.