
Tech Lead Manager, Platform Engineering
Multi Media, LLC
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $180,000 - $220,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design and maintain scalable CI/CD systems, self-service workflows, and platform capabilities that support our engineering organization.
- Lead and develop a team of 2-4 Platform Engineers through 1:1s, mentoring, goal-setting, and performance management.
- Own technical architecture decisions for platform systems by designing solutions that balance developer experience, reliability, and operational simplicity.
- Partner with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to drive platform adoption and embed security, reliability, and compliance into workflows.
- Drive hiring efforts by refining candidate profiles, interview rubrics, and ensuring assessments validate real-world platform engineering skills.
- Foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement where engineers are empowered to propose and drive solutions.
- Ensure operational health of platform systems through incident response practices, SLAs, and systematic technical debt reduction.
- Champion standardization by establishing golden paths for infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and observability.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
- 2+ years of experience as a tech lead, engineering manager, or TLM for infrastructure/platform teams, or clear evidence of leading complex platform initiatives and mentoring engineers.
- Strong practical experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI) including pipeline design, performance optimization, and secrets management.
- Hands-on experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) in production environments.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm) and solid grasp of cloud infrastructure concepts.
- Proficiency in at least one language commonly used for tooling and backend work (Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to balance strategic planning with hands-on execution.
- Strong communication skills, particularly when explaining technical trade-offs and constraints to cross-functional partners.
- **Bonus Points:**
- Experience building and operating self-hosted CI/CD runner infrastructure
- Track record of driving platform adoption across large engineering organizations
- Background in security automation or compliance tooling
- Experience with observability platforms and debugging distributed systems
Benefits
- Fair and competitive base salary
- Fully Remote Optional
- Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurances for you and any dependents, with policy premiums covered by the Company
- Long & Short term disability insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Annual Year-End Company Closure
- Optional 401k with 5% matching
- 12 Paid Holidays
- Paid Lunches in-office, or if Remote, a $125/week stipend via Sharebite
- EAP and Employee Recognition Programs
- And much more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
CI/CDPlatform EngineeringDevOpsSREInfrastructure EngineeringPipeline designPerformance optimizationSecrets managementInfrastructure-as-codeCloud infrastructure
Soft skills
LeadershipMentoringGoal-settingPerformance managementProblem-solvingStrategic planningCommunicationCollaborationContinuous improvementOwnership
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science