We're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering to lead our efforts in building world-class reliability, cloud infrastructure, and operational excellence at Rula.
In this role, you'll own the strategy, frameworks, pipelines, and tooling that ensure our production and non-production systems maintain high availability — from monitoring and observability platforms to incident response systems.
You'll partner closely with the Platform Services team to co-own the developer experience by defining the standards, practices, and architecture to ensure our application developers can deliver services that are secure, scalable, and reliable across all environments while creating a smooth and easy path to develop these services and applications.
This is a highly cross-functional leadership role, working with product engineering, data engineering, and security teams, along with other stakeholders across the company.
You'll directly impact service reliability, minimize customer-facing incidents, and shape the operational environments (production and non-production) where Rula services run with stability, efficiency, and resilience.
Requirements
5+ years of people management experience, leading engineering teams - ideally building out the initial team and then growing to 5-7 engineers, is perfect type/size
3+ years leading SRE, Platform, or Infrastructure teams with direct ownership of CI/CD pipelines, development environments and/or internal tooling
5+ years working with cloud providers
Different work environments: Growth company experience & Working cross-functionally in an expanding Engineering organization
Demonstrated success in building and scaling cloud-native infrastructure and frameworks in modern cloud environments (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform)
Demonstrated experience directly managing projects with a variety of stakeholders (define and build plan, manage activities, risks, stakeholder communication, etc)
Experience defining and tracking SRE KPIs
Benefits
100% remote work environment (US-based only): Working hours to support a healthy work-life balance, ensuring you can meet both professional and personal commitments
Attractive pay and benefits: Full transparency of pay ranges regardless of where you live in the United States
Comprehensive health benefits: Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and FSA/HSA
401(k) plan access: Start saving for your future
Generous time-off policies: Including 2 company-wide shutdown weeks each year for self-care (for most employees)
Paid parental leave: Available for all parents, including birthing, non-birthing, adopting, and fostering
Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Support for your mental and physical health
New hire home office stipend: Set up your workspace for success
Quarterly department stipend: Fund team-building activities or in-person gatherings
Wellness events and lunch & learns: Explore a variety of engaging topics
Community and employee resource groups: Participate in groups that celebrate employee identity and lived experiences, fostering a sense of community and belonging for all
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Hard skills
people managementSREPlatform EngineeringInfrastructure managementCI/CD pipelinescloud-native infrastructureKubernetesTerraformmonitoring platformsobservability