Manager II, Platform Engineering (Compute).

Accountabilities:

• Lead and manage platform engineering teams, ensuring timely delivery of platform initiatives and operational commitments.

• Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders to understand needs, define project requirements, and prioritize work in alignment with business objectives.

• Oversee the technical design and architecture of the compute platform, including container orchestration, autoscaling, and deployment tooling.

• Establish and promote infrastructure engineering best practices, including code reviews, testing, infrastructure as code, and safe, progressive rollouts.

• Mentor and coach engineers, support their professional development, manage team performance, and provide regular feedback through performance reviews.

• Monitor project progress, remove obstacles, and maintain momentum across team initiatives.

• Foster cross-functional collaboration and ensure platform priorities support broader business goals.

• Own platform reliability through service level objectives (SLOs), monitoring, alerting, and effective operational practices.

• Lead incident response for platform issues, facilitate blameless postmortems, and ensure corrective actions are completed.

• Maintain a healthy and sustainable on-call rotation across a distributed team.

• Plan infrastructure capacity to support business growth and manage cloud expenditure in partnership with finance, including budgeting and forecasting.

• Keep the platform secure and up to date through version upgrades, patching, and security guardrails.

• Balance support requests, maintenance activities, and roadmap priorities to ensure the team delivers on its commitments.

• Identify opportunities to improve operational processes and tools, while staying current with industry trends and emerging technologies.

Requirements:

• At least 7 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering.

• At least 4 years of experience in people leadership or engineering management.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• Strong understanding of software development methodologies and processes, including Agile, Scrum, and Kanban.

• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production environments at scale, such as Amazon EKS.

• Deep experience with AWS, particularly compute services, networking, and identity and access management.

• Practical experience with infrastructure as code and GitOps tools, such as Terraform, Terragrunt, and ArgoCD.

• Experience with Git or other version control systems and CI/CD platforms such as GitLab CI.

• Familiarity with observability and monitoring platforms, such as Datadog.

• Proficiency in scripting and automation languages, including Python, Go, or Bash.

• Experience managing on-call rotations and leading production incident response.

• Proven ability to deliver complex infrastructure projects on time and within scope.

• Strong technical aptitude combined with effective project and people management skills.

• Ability to work strategically and adapt to a fast-growing, agile environment.

• Demonstrated success in building teams and cultures that encourage autonomy, innovation, collaboration, and productivity.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with different audiences.

• Ability to remain calm and organized under pressure and guide teams through production incidents.

• Experience treating an internal platform as a product, with a focus on developer experience.

• Familiarity with the runtime behavior of large Ruby on Rails applications is an advantage.

• An updated resume translated into English is required for consideration.

Benefits:

• Monthly compensation starting at USD 8,500, under a B2B contract. This is the stated starting amount; the posting does not specify whether additional variable compensation is available.

• Paid holidays and flexible, take-it-as-you-need-it scheduled time off.

• A MacBook provided and configured from the first day.

• A USD 500 workspace stipend to help create a comfortable and productive home-office setup.

• An innovation-focused culture that welcomes ideas and encourages professional growth.

• A globally distributed, collaborative working environment.