Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

The Role

• Leading a squad of backend and DevOps engineers, fostering a positive and collaborative remote work environment
• Mentoring the engineers on your team and coaching them in their career growth
• Owning the quality and reliability of the projects owned by your team
• Working with our team of engineering leaders and product managers to estimate and deliver critical features while reducing risk, maintaining quality, identifying dependencies, and supporting deliverables across the entire product space
• Leading the team’s focus on best-in-class engineering principles and process, from code architecture and quality to agile processes and ceremonies
• Maintaining a significant presence in the day-to-day engineering work, supporting multiple streams/backlogs, balancing priorities, and ensuring effective cross-team collaboration

Technologies you'll work with and experience you’ll ideally bring:

• Amazon Web Services infrastructure and deployments, utilizing RDS/Aurora, Docker/Containerization, VPCs, EC2, Lambda, S3, Elasticache, and other services we research and adopt
• Building, testing, deploying, and operating services written in Java, Javascript, and Python
• Infrastructure-as-code and GitOps
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelinesInfrastructure for management of WebRTC and video transcoding/distribution pipelines
• Adopting and driving a test-forward approach with unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Working with Atlassian tools (Bitbucket/Git, Jira, Confluence)
• Working with security compliance processes and auditsA security- and reliability-first mindset
• Superior cross-functional leadership, communication, and documentation skills